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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   "were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without   
   newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a   
   moment   
   to prefer the latter."   
   - Thomas Jefferson, 1787   
      
   "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited   
   without being lost."   
   - Thomas Jefferson to Dr. J. Currie, 1786   
      
   "The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads   
   them: inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is   
   filled with falsehood and errors." - Thomas Jefferson 1807, 20 years later   
      
   "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.  Truth itself   
   becomes   
   suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."   
   - Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807   
      
      
   "The basis of our government 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 for a moment to prefer the latter.  But I should mean that   
   every man should receive those papers, and be capable fo reading them."   
   - Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787   
      
   "The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads   
   them: inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is   
   filled with falsehood and errors."   
   - Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, and other citizens of Hartford, Feb. 11,   
   1807   
      
      
   "Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this.  Divide   
   his   
   paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths.  2d, Probabilities.  3,   
   Possibilities.  4th, Lies.  The first chapter would be very short."   
   - To John Norvell, June 11, 1807   
      
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