“The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.” William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878) American romantic poet, journalist, editor of the New York Evening Post. Source: New York Evening Post, 18 November 1837.
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