| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 28739 |
| QUOTATION: | The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935), U.S. jurist. Supreme Court opinion. Schenk v. United States, Baer v. United States, 249 U.S. 52 (1919). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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