“The constitution of most of the states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Israel is one of the most multiracial and multicultural countries in the world. More than a hundred different countries are represented in… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be. — Julian Assange 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
Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare… — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute freedom of the press, not even in the most advanced countries in the world. There… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“Journalists must uphold democracy; they are its fourth and last pillar” — Those Facts Copy Share Image