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Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.198
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.