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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes: The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
         

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.


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