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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. (1841–1935), U.S. jurist. Supreme Court opinion. Schenk v. United States, Baer v. United States, 249 U.S. 52 (1919).
 
 
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