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To such extent are the great liberties of speech and of the press subverted!
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
This statement reflects Sumner's concern about the erosion of free speech and press under oppressive regimes.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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