399 BC Socrates at His Trial
The sun could as easily be spared from the universe as free speech from the liberal institutions of society.
Daily discussion of the matters about which you hear me conversing is the highest good of man. Life that is not tested by such discussion is not worth living . . .
I know not what death is – it may be a good thing, and I am not afraid of it. But I do know that it is a bad thing to desert one’s post and I prefer what may be good to what I know to be bad.
