The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself acceptedin the competition of the market. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself acceptedin the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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