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Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · 1974

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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. United States Reports, vol. 418, 25 June 1974, pp. 323-404. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/418/323/.

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