Some Jefferson quotations (happy birthday!): "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791. ME 8:276 "The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. ME 15:491 "The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632 Photos of the Jefferson memorial in DC: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dc-monuments.html -Declan ----- Forwarded message from "J. Joshua Wheeler" <jjwat_private> ----- From: "J. Joshua Wheeler" <jjwat_private> Subject: Censuring the Censors Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:14:17 -0400 Organization: Thomas Jefferson Center It's April 13. Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson! For the 10th year in a row, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression celebrates the birth of its namesake by calling attention to some of the most egregious or ridiculous affronts to free expression that occurred in the past year. Did we pick your favorite censor of the year? Click on the link below to find out and then let us know what you think. http://www.tjcenter.org/muzzles.html ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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