The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone — Edgar Watson Howe Copy Share Image
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. — Junius Copy Share Image
If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
“The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.” — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential… — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented,… — James Madison Copy Share Image