[SWAMPSNIPER]

“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson

[cripplecreek]

I think Jefferson and I would have gotten along just fine.

Kind of poetic that live in a "town" named after John Norvell. Norvell wrote to ask Jefferson's opinions on entering politics and starting a newspaper.

From Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 11 June 1807

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful, I should answer ‘by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.’ yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. it is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it’s benefits, than is done by it’s abandoned prostitution to falsehood. nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.