平心而论，言论自由应该永不遭遇镇压，美国最高法院法官霍姆斯（Oliver Wendell Holmes）在一宗与美国宪法对自由言论的保护的案例中，通过反对意见强调了这一点。
To be sure, freedom of expression should almost never be repressed, a point that the United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes emphasized in a dissenting opinion in a case concerning the US Constitution’s guarantee of free speech.