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- From: wbralick@afit.af.mil (Will Bralick)
- Subject: Intertesting quote noted en passant
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.002049.26001@afit.af.mil>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:20:49 GMT
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- I noticed the following while looking for something quite unrelated.
- Conservatives who complain of the biased media have nothing on the
- following author:
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- It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press
- could not more completely deprive the nation of its bene-
- fits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to false-
- hood. ... the man who never looks into a newspaper is
- better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who
- knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is fill-
- ed with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will
- still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.
-
- Now, name the author ...
-
-
- -- Thomas Jefferson
- Letter to John Norwell
- 14 June 1807
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- Amazing, isn't it? Now, what if _this_ private correspondence were
- treated with the same importance as Jefferson's private letter wherein
- he promulgated the ``wall of separation'' dogma -- a dogma he himself
- ignored in the Louisiana Territory ...
-
-
- Regards,
-
- --
-
- Will Bralick Speaking _only_ for myself.
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- Standard disclaimers apply. Void where prohibitted by law.
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