Free Press Quotes

52 quotes by 43 authors

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them… — Hugo Black
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. — Albert Camus
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. — Christiane Amanpour
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The… — Thomas Jefferson
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and… — Robert H. Jackson
Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till… — Ted Olson
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the… — Aldous Huxley
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth. — Herbert Hoover
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every… — Herbert Hoover
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then… — William O. Douglas
Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but… — Felix Frankfurter
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. — Amartya Sen
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a… — Frank Hague
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter… — George Sutherland
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other… — Christopher Dodd
It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In… — Chuck Baldwin
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated… — Walter Lippmann
We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free… — Robert Scheer
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of… — Fidel Castro

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