"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
"Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation"
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Source: Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”
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