Without freedom of the press, ...

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand