Liberties II

"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties
to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men,
disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman
called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men."
-- Gerald W. Johnson
(1890-1980)
Source: American Freedom and the Press, 1958