Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. (William O. Douglas)

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

William O. Douglas

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