Zechariah Chafee

Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (December 7, 1885 – February 8, 1957) was an American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian. An advocate for free speech, he was described by Senator Joseph McCarthy as "dangerous" to the United States. Sourced Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins. "Freedom of Speech in Wartime", 32 Harvard Law Review 932, 957 (1919). (Various permutations of this quote have been incorrectly attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.). "Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc." dissent by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Speech should be fruitful as well as free. "Freedom of Speech as I See It Today", Journalism Quarterly, vol. 18 (June 1941), p. 158. External links Category:Philosophers from the United States Category:Left-libertarianism Category:1885 births Category:1957 deaths Category:Free speech activists Category:People from Rhode Island Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Harvard University faculty