To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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