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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Approximate author period: c. 1888 AD · industrial
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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- Approximate author period: c. 1888 AD · industrial
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