Mr Almanac Quotes

Years ago,’ Dr. Bentley said, ‘before we won our independence, the Essex Almanac published something about freedom of the press. It was true then; it's just as true now. I may not have the exact words, but it went something like this: ‘The Press is dangerous in a despotic government, but in a free country it is very useful, so long as it is free; for it is very important that people should be told everything that concerns them. If we argue against any branch of liberty, just because sometimes people abuse that liberty, then we argue against liberty itself. In a free country, the press must be free.

I didn’t answer. Mr. Dowater had a reputation for deadpan humor, a humor that was strangely similar to the low-level, sarcastic sniper fire offered by the school’s underbleacher population of stoners and class-cutters. It didn’t really pay to engage it. After