“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."

--William Orville Douglas (16 October 1898 - 19 January 1980), SCOTUS

Beauharnais v. Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (dissenting), 1952

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