To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

— Claude Adrien Helvétius A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education, Vol. I (1773)

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