Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. (Henry Steele Commager)

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

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