A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“Only a free press could check abuses of executive power, Hamilton asserted.” — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press. — Thomas Jefferson 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 free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. — Ferdinand Mount 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
I believe that as slow and frustrating as it sometimes is, our democracy, our free press and the rule of law work.… — Tom Suozzi 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
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“No one has a monopoly on the truth, but the whole premise of our democracy is that truth and justice must win… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting,… — Walter Lippmann 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
Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to… — Andy Garcia 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
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
The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think.… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“If you want to look at a Detroit Free Press published since 2000," the reference librarian said, "you can use a database."… — JoAnna Carl 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
And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic… — Ted Lieu 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 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
The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over their minds… — Oswald Mosley 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
The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom. — Karl Marx 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
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
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
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
