Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American journalist
Quote in The Good Society by Walter Lippmann, Transaction Publications (2005) p. 89. First published in 1937.
“In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture delivered at Harvard (1958); quoted in The Rhetoric of Our Times (1969) by J. Jeffery Auer, p. 124.
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