"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
"The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion."
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Source: De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 365. Judicial opinion, 1937.
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