“A free press is equally free to print the truth or ignore it, as it chooses.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great. — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that. — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press. — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press. — Samuel Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to… — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We are lucky to have a free press. But in some parts of it, you have to search hard to find items… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it's vital that a free press can tell… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of… — Candice S. Miller Copy Share Image
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Free press is not absolute. In this country, we say clearly if you start stirring up racial hatred, then we will put… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
¦we in the West have deluded ourselves into believing that we actually have a truly free press. We dont. And we can… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“In modern democracies, press freedom was being used as a cloak to shield media conglomerates’ domination of public discussion ‘in which misinformation… — Ian Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Agood part of the British case for having created India’s political unity and democracy lies in the evolution of three of democracy’s… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Elephant Memories. William Morrow, 1988. Moss, Cynthia J., Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee, eds. The Amboseli Elephants. University of Chicago Press,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A free press is one where it’s ok to state the conclusion you’re led to by the evidence.” — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image