Quote from Justice William O. Douglas 

"The framers of the constitution
knew human nature as well as we do.
They too had lived in dangerous days;
they too knew the suffocating influence
of orthodoxy and standardized thought.
They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech
and thought against the abuses of liberty.
They chose liberty."

Quote by:
Justice William O. Douglas
(1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Source:
Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952)
 
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