Freedom of the press Quotes

“Freedom of the press belongs to anyone who owns one,”

— Jeannette Walls

“If change isn’t making things better, it’s time for change.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

— A.J. Liebling

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

— Leon Gambetta

All power is inherent in the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one

— V

Freedom of the press without responsibility is madness.

— Eddie Rabbitt

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

— Thomas Jefferson

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

— Jorge Ramos

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

— Mark Twain

“There is no room for discussing a creed, and mine is the freedom of press”

— Aoun Ayman AL Haddad

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

— Joely Richardson

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Grace Kelly

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Hinton Rowan Helper

“do not believe this was the result our forefathers envisioned when they fought so hard to establish freedom of the press. Such…

— Ben Carson

When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth... that's an attack on freedom…

— Jeff Zucker

There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and…

— John Adams

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the…

— Alan Dershowitz

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the…

— Victor Hugo

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no…

— Elliott Abrams

“To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law…

— Yann Martel

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the…

— Lionel Barber

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

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

When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me.…

— Albert Einstein

“In a representative democracy, the media is in a unique position to shine a light on those with power and how they…

— Richard Haas

Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right…

— Paul Kurtz

Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the…

— Barack Obama

“Our Revolution commenced on more favorable ground. It presented us an album on which we were free to write what we pleased.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Israel is one of the most multiracial and multicultural countries in the world. More than a hundred different countries are represented in…

— Brigitte Gabriel

“The many ... whom one chooses to call the people, are indeed a collection, but only as a multitude, a formless mass,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion,…

— Sebastian Marshall

“Tom looked at St. Vincent. “I assume the editor at the Chronicle refused to divulge the writer’s identity?” St. Vincent looked rueful.…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Freedom of the press’ and ‘capital punishment' – I usually give these phrases a wide berth at the family table, for were…

— Ernst Jünger

“Jefferson's ambivalence toward the French Revolution matters. As a key founder of the American republic, he bridges the moderate and radical Enlightenments.…

— Kim R. Holmes

“Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the…

— Tucker Carlson