Learned Hand Quote

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.


Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture delivered at Harvard (1958); quoted in The Rhetoric of Our Times (1969) by J. Jeffery Auer, p. 124.


In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.