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But a free nation never hears any side save its own.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “But a free nation never hears any side save its own.”
Editor's note · Context
Bagehot contends that a free nation tends to only hear perspectives that align with its own.
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