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Speech delivered at the 10th Anniversary Convocation for the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City

January 22, 1963

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New York, NY

If our Constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded—”But the greatest of these is speech.” In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.