Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Journalism
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The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and 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.
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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