"No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.“


-Anatole France

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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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