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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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171 |
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AUTHOR:
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Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) |
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QUOTATION:
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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President WOODROW WILSON, letter to Arthur Brisbane, April 25, 1917.—Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, vol. 6, p. 36 (1946). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Censorship |
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