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Quote from George Sutherland,


"Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time."


By:

George Sutherland (more quotes by George Sutherland or books by/about George Sutherland)


(1862-1942) U. S. Supreme Court Justice

Source:

Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board, 1937

Categories:

Constitution, Justice, Press, Religion, Speech

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