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Henry Steele Commager Quotes

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager

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Historian Quotes
Category:
American Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
October 25, 1902
Year of Death:
1998
Nationality:
American
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