It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist and author

Men of Destiny, ch. 8 “The Nature of the Battle Over Censorship,” sec. 2 (1927)
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