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Einstein: Laws Alone Can Not Secure Freedom of Expression

By Albert Einstein

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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist, born in Germany in 1879. He Introduced theory of general relativity in 1915 and won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 (Not for the theory of general relativity, but for his theory on photo-electric effect in 1905). He died in Princeton NJ, in the United States, in 1955.
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