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September 24, 2025

In the end, it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

Learned Hand (1872–1961), American jurist, O.W. Holmes Lecture, Harvard, 1958, Seldes p.174

Is there no middle ground here?

Perhaps, as Jefferson [vide July 4] said of rebellion, a little dissent is a good thing now and then, but even more so.


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