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Plato said, “The strong do what they can, the weak do what they must;** Shakespeare versed “and to thine own self be true’’; 'Voltaire penned “I may not agree' - with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it”; and Justice Holmes wrote, “The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade ip ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground .upon which their wishes safely can be-carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution.”
2bth Century thought has pro- . grossed greatly since the 19th Century, a period when our Bill of Sights* fathers thought in> terms of “the right to print and talk” as a means to liberate, us from distant controls. In 1791, freedom of the mind was necessary for the ministry and newsfaper,
. rather than the flock or he reader. A free press was essential for the editor with pen and ideas; freedom of religion was the right to stand in a pulpit. Few then thcrtight in' the terms of the right to read, listen or discuss; the soap boxers were in the saddle. In any mood of thinking, intellectual h o n e s t y' tells us those beliefs were the ‘‘thought-seed” of our rights and freedom. These same Constitutional fathers knew and discussed in their convention that though these rights•" could be granted, illiteracy could destroy them; that only through educa-. tion could these acquisitions be sustained and developed.
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