http://localhost:8080/northwest-ordinance Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/northwest-ordinance#comment-58850 Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:46:44 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=12285#comment-58850 George Lincoln Rockwell cited the Churchill speech in a 1967 lecture at Michigan state university. He would claim he was not Anti-Semitic, just opposed to Communism and the Jews who supported it. Inspite of his controversial remarks he was politely received and was himself respectful in his demeanor and delivery of his speech. Given the hypersensitivity of today’s climate, I doubt a man of Rockwell’s cloth would be well received at any of our centers of higher learning. When he spoke at a New York college in 1964, many of the students respected his right to speak and were supportive of the idea of intellectual freedom. As Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote , “If there is one star in our constitutional constellation we must respect above all else,it is freedom of thought, not free thought that we agree with but freedom of the thought that we hate”(U.S. vs. Schwimmer, 1929).

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