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Erik
· 9 months ago
I love this quote because media people love to take it out of context. It means the only thing that Jefferson hates more than newspapers is government, so a free press is necessary to keep government in check. I think we would have gotten along. But if they knew the whole story, I think they would be more reluctant to put him on their walls. Here are some more quotes from TJ on the subject:
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper"
"Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb."
"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers."
"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper"
"Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb."
"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers."
"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."