When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but… — John Adams
When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists: but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Letter to Thomas Jefferson, July 15, 1817 · 1817
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Adams, John. "Adams to Jefferson - Quincy, July 15, 1817." The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, edited by Lester J. Cappon. University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
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Adams, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 15 July 1817.