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To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.
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Vol. II, trans. C.F. Atkinson (1928) p. 461; a portion of this has sometimes been severely misquoted as if it were a statement of Spengler : "What we need is not freedom of the press, we need freedom from the press."

 

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