“ Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. ”
To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
~ Claude Adrien Helvétius
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.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
