Either Men Will Learn To

To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.

Principles-and I Have In Mind Such Principles As States' Rights Or National Sovereignty Or The Free Market Or Pacifism-have A Way Of Drying Up While The Sap Of Life Goes Flowing In Another Direction.

Meiklejohn's Position Is That Free Speech In A Democracy Is Not An Absolute Flowing From The Boundless Source Of Some Presumed 'natural Right.' It Is A Practical Necessity Of 'self-government By Universal Suffrage,' For If The Citizens Are Not Permitted To Argue Out The Issues Of Government, How Can They Be What They Must Be In A Democracy - The Rulers As Well As The Ruled?

In Societies Like The American And West European Where The Dynamics Of Energy Come From Freedom And Where The Climate And The Whole Ethos Are Those Of Freedom, Censorship Is Bound To Be At Worst, Stupid; At Best, Futile; And Always, To Some Degree, Inconsonant With The Character Of The Society As A Whole.

America Is A Passionate Idea Or It Is Nothing. America Is A Human Brotherhood Or It Is Chaos.