Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government witho…

Thomas Jefferson
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. ✨ Letter to Edward Carrington, 16 Jan. 1787
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