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Press Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.
- I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature…
- When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term,…
- The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of…
- Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
- The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
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