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- author: Lord Chief Justice Halisham
- content: The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people
- think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will
- applaud. All the so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted
- against others who claim that if such things are to be allowed their own rights
- are infringed or their own liberties threatened. This is always true, even when
- we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or association,
- or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly
- be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it is exercised
- is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often be
- justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse.
- Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
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