Quote#Speech
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than…
Quote byCharles Eliot Norton · 1827–1908
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: True Patriotism (1898).
English (original)
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
— Charles Eliot Norton
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