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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Henry Adams
Lying, Trust No One, Liberty
Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Adams
Responsibility, Liberty, Ignoring Facts
Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.30, Penguin

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