Free Press Quotes
52 quotes by 43 authors
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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
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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
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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
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In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
— Christiane Amanpour
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
— Amartya Sen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Free Press Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 52 Free Press Quotes, led by these top contributors: