Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Where these words come from
- 90% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Young India (12 March 1931), p. 31 — first sentence of a two-sentence passage, quoted verbatim as its own complete statement.
- 1931
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