Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens.
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The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
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