Also, Michael Oakshott might have been right when he said that:
The major part of mankind has nothing to say; the lives of most men do not revolve around a felt necessity to speak. And it may be supposed that this extraordinary emphasis upon freedom of speech is the work of a small vocal section in our society. Nor is it incapable of abuse; when it is extended to the indiscriminate right to cajole or blackmail defenceless people to display their emptiness in foolish utterances, and to publish innuendoes in respect of those who refuse to speak, it begins to reveal itself as a menace to freedom. For most men, to be deprived of the right of voluntary association or of private property would be a far greater and more deeply felt loss of liberty than to be deprived of the right to speak freely.
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