FDR: “Liberty of speech and of the press is not a mere phrase, a mere form…”

On the recordApril 15, 1941

Liberty of speech and of the press is not a mere phrase, a mere form of words, a constitutional abstraction.

Said by

Democratic · New York

Source

Letter to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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FDR: “Liberty of speech and of the press is not a mere phrase, a mere form of words, a constitutional abstraction.”