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Quote from Claude-Adrien Helvetius,


"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 knaves."


By:

Claude-Adrien Helvetius (more quotes by Claude-Adrien Helvetius or books by/about Claude-Adrien Helvetius)


(1715-1771)

Source:

On The Mind

Categories:

Censorship, Fear, Knowledge, Learning, Media, Press, Prohibition, Truth

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