"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."
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"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic …"
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