If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.


"Apology for Printers" (1730); later in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiographical Writings (1945) edited by Carl Van Doren


If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.