"...newspapers without government or government without newspapers?"

[kentuck]

From a quote by Thomas Jefferson:

".. 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 & be capable of reading them."

Also:

"When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Oh, whoever heard of him?

I'll add a link to spurious Jefferson quotes, though it's not needed in this case.

I'm doing on general principles, as there are a lot of Jefferson quotes are there that Jefferson never said. They usually have a lot to do with free enterprise. The usual suspects send them to everyone on their mailing lists.

https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/spurious-quotations

Thanks for the quotes.