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Zechariah Chafee

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Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
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"Freedom of Speech in Wartime", 32 Harvard Law Review 932, 957 (1919). (Various permutations of this quote have been incorrectly attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)

 
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