In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) French writer, diplomat, politician
Democracy in America, Vol. 1, ch. 5 (1835)
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