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FDR: “It would be a shameful abuse of patriotism to suggest that opinion should be stifled in its service.”

On the recordApril 15, 1941
It would be a shameful abuse of patriotism to suggest that opinion should be stifled in its service.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letter to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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