06-11-2010, 04:16 PM
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MURICAN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Virginia
Posts: 5,136
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Beebs
I don't actually mean "don't argue", I just mean it's "emphatically and obviously wrong".
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But it's not though. A lot of very knowledgable people argue in favour of it.
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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.

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