Whitelaw Reid: “A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in…”

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A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid argues that a truly free press must be able to criticize as well as praise.

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