"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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