THE REMINISCENCES OF CARL SCHURZ
libel laws. But whatever is still remaining of scurrility in the treatment of public things and men should patiently be borne as one of the inevitable concomitants of democratic government, in accordance with Thomas Jefferson's wise saying that “he would much rather be exposed to the inconveniences arising from too much liberty, than those arising from too small a degree of it.”
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