the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president. 2. (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. 3. Rhetoric. a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity.
Definition of freedom of speech. : the legal right to express one's opinions freely.
Free speech allows the truth to surface and prevail. A free society is more dynamic than a closed one, making it a breeding ground for new ideas, inventions, ways of doing business and of governance. Free speech is itself a social good because those who are free are more fully developed as human beings.