Free Press Quotes
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The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.
In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.
Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.
Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.
Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do?
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.
I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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