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The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

Edward R. Murrow
Thinking, America, Speak
Speech to his staff before the broadcast of the "See It Now" program on Joe McCarthy on March 09, 1954. "Edward R. Murrow And the Time Of His Time" by Joseph Wershba, www.evesmag.com.
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.