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Speech, US Senate (19 Apr 1917) - Borah, William Edgar | WIST Quotations
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammelled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it…