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Free speech - Quotes and cases

“The smell of the printer's ink is the incense of modern revolutionary organization.” Nicholas Bonneville in 1789

“Thanks to printing and the press, we have today means of intellectual propaganda that the ancients did not imagine. Without going to converse in the shops and preach in the squares, we send the radiations of our thoughts directly in the hearts of men of good will.” Theophile Thore, defended himself at his trial in 1840.

“For let us be honest in facing this fundamental fact: Those who cultivate competence, accuracy, and intellectual honesty tend to be the smallest segment of the journalistic community, their audience the smallest sector of the public.” The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information Jean Francois Revel.