[740] 249 U. S. 47 (1919). Holmes’ reasoning was perhaps based on J. S. Mill’s analysis in his essay “On Liberty:” “No one pretends that actions should be as free as opinions. On the contrary, even opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act.” On Liberty (New York: Dutton, 1950), Ch. III, p. 152.
[741] Discussed subsequently in relation to the Dennis case.
[742] 249 U. S. 47 at p. 52 (1919).
[743] Abrams v. United States, 250 U. S. 616 (1919).
[744] Id., at 628-29.
[745] Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925); Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927).
[746] 18 USC 2385.
[747] 183 F. 2d 201, 212-13 (1950). See, Robert G. McCloskey, “Free Speech, Sedition and the Constitution,” 45 APSR, 1951, pp. 662-673.
[748] Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951). This incidentally is one of many cases in which restrictive measures which doubtless would have been upheld during a wartime emergency, were sustained as a valid exercise of governmental power during peace time. In American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U. S. 382 (1949), the Court upheld the Communist oath provision of the Taft-Hartley Act, not as justified in an emergency situation such as we then faced, and confront today, but as a normal power of Congress accruing to it under the Commerce Clause.
[749] Home Bldg. & Loan Ass’n v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, 426 (1934). This is a reiteration of a quotation from his “War Powers Under the Constitution,” 42 ABA REPORTS, 1917, 238. Also in 8 Doc. 105; 65th Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 7-8.