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• Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,…
• The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
• The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon…
• The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is…
• We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels…
• The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional…
• It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was…
• Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real…

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