No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.