The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... ab…

Thomas Jefferson
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The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). The Real Thomas Jefferson, Natl Center for Constitutional
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