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" 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 slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. "

Claude Adrien Helvétius , A Treatise on Man, Vol. 1 of 2: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education (Classic Reprint)


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Claude Adrien Helvétius quote : 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 slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.