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Experience suggests that a random sample of popular opinion is more likely to do justice in this type of case than is a judge.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that a jury is more likely to deliver justice in cases of speech than a judge.
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Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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