It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.
Thomas Jefferson[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
Thomas JeffersonThe issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
Thomas Jefferson