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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
| George Washington Cable, Novelist (1844) |
| Kirk Cameron, Actor (1970) |
| John Engler, Politician (1948) |
| Robert Fitzgerald, Author (1910) |
| Hugh Jackman, Actor (1968) |
| Marion Jones, Athlete (1975) |
| Dean Acheson, Statesman (1971) |
| Edith Cavell, Public Servant (1915) |
| John Denver, Musician (1997) |
| Lord Hailsham, Politician (2001) |
| Alf Landon, Politician (1987) |
| Robert E. Lee, Soldier (1870) |

