“It is not enough merely to say I love America,” he declared, “and to salute the flag and take off your hat as it goes by, and to help sing the Star Spangled Banner.” Then he delivered the provocative declaration that would be quoted the next day around the globe: Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship. How will we defeat communism unless we know what it
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