History furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Alexander von Humboldt (1813), in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson vol. 14, p. […]

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“Especially when the wealthy have more access to the most potent media of communication than the poor, how sure can we be that ‘free trade in ideas’ is likely to generate truth?”                                                                   — Tribe, American Constitutional Law (2d ed. 1988) at p. 768.

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