 | Jeffrey Rosen - 2007 - 288 pages
...Holmes offered them as a justification for suppressing free speech. In the next breath, he declared: "When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of 119 peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men... | |
 | Jerome Pohlen - 2008 - 432 pages
...reviewed the case and on March 3, 1919, issued a chilling unanimous decision that read, in part, "When the nation is at war many things that might be said in...regard them as protected by any constitutional right." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes then cited a previously unknown "clear and present danger" exception... | |
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When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right. 
