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editEpstein, Joseph; Shapiro, Fred C. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. p. 501. ISBN 0-300-10798-6.
The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
— George Mason, principal author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
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Epstein, Joseph; Shapiro, Fred C. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. p. 501. ISBN 0-300-10798-6.