The Freedom to Stay Silent

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"The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent."

— Rothbard, Murray event 1982

Context: From The Ethics of Liberty (1982). Rothbard points out that a right is hollow unless it includes the right not to exercise it; the freedom of speech necessarily implies the freedom not to speak.

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