|   |  "When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking,
 I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing
 now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years
 after you and I shall write and speak no more."
 |   | Quote by: | John Adams(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
 |  | Source: | letter to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1817, Ref: The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006 |  |  |  |  |   |  |  
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