It Is Error Alone Which Needs The Support Of

“No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the fair operation of attack and defence. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting out the truth either in religion, law, or politics. I think it as honorable to the government neither to know, nor notice, it’s sycophants or censors, as it would be undignified and criminal to pamper the former and persecute the latter.”

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”