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Where the Press Is Free.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Lafayette · 1823
Jefferson's condition.
Jefferson's line is a conditional: where the press is free and people can read, all is safe. The safety of the republic is made to depend on two things, a free press and a literate public.
Why we kept the clause.
The full sentence ties press freedom to literacy, journalism to readership. Quorum keeps the conditional intact because the condition is the argument. A free press only protects a country that reads it.
How we set it.
A longer editorial lockup in Fraunces, "Free" lifted into the soft italic. The line is set the way Jefferson wrote it, as a measured sentence rather than a slogan.
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