To Limit The Press Is To Insult A Nation; To Prohibit Reading Of Certain Books Is To Declare The Inhabitants To Be Either Fools Or Slaves.

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain
books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
--Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771), French philosopher, from De
L'Homme, Vol. 1, sec. 4.

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