Carl Friedrich Gauss/middle Years 1799%e2%80%931830

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    “The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.”
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