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You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.
Approximate author period: c. 2003 AD · contemporary
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- Glenn Beck
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- Approximate author period: c. 2003 AD · contemporary
Approximate author-period evidence for Glenn Beck: documented activity in 2003. Wikidata Q310618, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310618 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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