Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette

Monticello Nov. 4. 23.

but the only security of all is in a free press. the force of public opinion cannot be resisted, when permitted freely to be expressed. the agitation it produces must be submitted to. it is necessary to keep the waters pure.

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