That's awesome. Perhaps its a result of Jefferson's ridiculous brilliance, but I've noticed on other occasions that he gets too briefly quoted. In Boyle's Public Domain book there's a long discussion of what happens in the Jefferson quote after the bit about using one candle to light another, that's definitely worth reading.
I don't have the text handy, and he explains it much better than I could! Parker On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Seth Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > > This might not be earthshattering, but I thought it was interesting -- > note what Jefferson states in the last sentence here, after the > sentence that's usually cited: > > > "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, 1787 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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