"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
Harry S. Truman
Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States.
August 8, 1950
Read the entire message here.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
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