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"Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law."
Joseph Story / Motto of the "Salem Register." (Life of Story, Vol. i. p. 127.)
Motto of the "Salem Register." (Life of Story, Vol. i. p. 127.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain