
it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin - Volume 2, Página 100 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=aSQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100, Thomas Jefferson - J. C. Riker, 1853