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Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . .

Source: Mr. John Strachey's Case and the Law, in New York Herald Tribune (13 Oct. 1938; repr. in The Essential Lippman, pt. 2, sct. 4, 1982).
-- Walter Lippmann, (Sep 23 1889-1974), US journalist, editor, author; He won Pulitzers 1958, 1962, for his syndicated column, Today and Tomorrow.

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