"Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of free speech to free men from bondage of irrational fears. . . Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. . . "
Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)
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