Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men. ” ~ Gerald W. Johnson (1890-1980) American journalist, editor, essayist, historian, biographer, novelistSource: American Freedom and the Press, 1958