"Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty."

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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.

— Thomas Jefferson