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6924. PRESS (Freedom of the), Invasions of.—

There are rights which it is useless
to surrender to the government, and
which governments have yet always been
found to invade. [Among] are the rights of
thinking and publishing our thoughts by
* * * writing.—
To David Humphreys. Washington ed. iii, 13. Ford ed., v, 89.
(P. 1789)