US president Thomas Jefferson, author of the US Declaration of Independence, said something to the effect that, if forced to choose between having a government and no newspapers, or newspapers and no government, he would choose the latter without any hesitation.
美國第三任總統、「獨立宣言」的起草人傑弗遜曾說：「假如要我們就有政府而無報紙，或是有報紙而無政府來選擇的話，我將毫不考慮地選擇後者。」