# First link

>‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.’
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> Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning… The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged.
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> Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode “The Drumhead”