The Press Quotes

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

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

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.

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

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

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

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.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

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.

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

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.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

The only time you have a free press is when you own one.

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

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.

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.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

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.

A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

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 even like being quoted in a press release.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.