The 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.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

The press is the enemy.

The only security of all is in a free press.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

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.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

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.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

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.

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.

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.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

A lot of companies are still using social as the world’s shortest press release.

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.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

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.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.