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Quote from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,


"The most stringent protection of free speech
would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire
in a theater and causing a panic."


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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (more quotes by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. or books by/about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)


(1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"

Date:

1919

Categories:

Constitution, Freedom, Individual Rights, Liberty, Civil Rights

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