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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.

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.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letter to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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