The most effective censorship is not, in fact, legal; in a democracy-as Tocqueville pointed out in Democracy in America-it is public opinion. (Henry Steele Commager)

The most effective censorship is not, in fact, legal; in a democracy-as Tocqueville pointed out in Democracy in America-it is public opinion.

Henry Steele Commager

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