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“Speech is a natural right. God gave us each a mind, a conscience, and the power to articulate what weighs on them. Only a fool seeks to silence those who disagree with him.”
“Only a fool? Doesn’t every man find disagreement to be disagreeable?”
“You studied Euclid. In geometry, is A farther from B or is B farther from A?”
She frowned. They had been discussing Locke, not Euclid. “They’re the same.”
“Correct. And so it is in every disagreement. The difference is as great on each side. Herein is the great mystery of government. The opinions of our elected representatives are as diverse as those of the voters who elected them. It is in the collision of truth and opinions that we create a unified voice.”
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“Only a fool? Doesn’t every man find disagreement to be disagreeable?”
“You studied Euclid. In geometry, is A farther from B or is B farther from A?”
She frowned. They had been discussing Locke, not Euclid. “They’re the same.”
“Correct. And so it is in every disagreement. The difference is as great on each side. Herein is the great mystery of government. The opinions of our elected representatives are as diverse as those of the voters who elected them. It is in the collision of truth and opinions that we create a unified voice.”
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