FDR: “It would be a shameful abuse of patriotism to suggest that opinion…”

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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Democratic · New York

Source

Letter to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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