Harry Truman actually said...

We must guard our freedom well--guard it from armed assault, guard it from subversive infiltration, guard it from internal suppression and the deadly imposition of conformity.

Context

Statement Upon Issuing Order Establishing the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights

01/22/1951

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