“America is no longer a free country, in the old sense; and liberty is, increasingly, a mere rhetorical figure. … No thinking citizen, I venture to say, can express in freedom more than a part of his honest convictions.  I do not of course refer to convictions that are frankly criminal.  I do mean that everywhere, on every hand, free speech is choked off in one direction or another.  The only way in which an American citizen who is really interested in all the social and political problems of his country can preserve any freedom of expression, is to choose the mob that is most sympathetic to him, and abide under that mob.”

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Harper’s Magazine 1922

Nay.

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