“Censorship...ought to be confined to the temporary suppression of military and naval news which might assist the enemy. ... Public opinion might be fallible, but it was not half as fallible as individual opinion, and, good or bad, the Government had to lean upon it; how could they do that unless public opinion had full, free, and correct information as to facts?”

—  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Speech in the House of Lords (3 November 1915), quoted in The Times (4 November 1915), p. 9
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