Press Quotes

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If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come… — Bill Moyers
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like… — Malcolm X
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy… — Chris Hedges
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,… — Thomas Jefferson
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred… — Patrick Henry
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to… — Thomas Jefferson
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence,… — Unknown Author
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.… — Albert Einstein
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and… — George Orwell
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its… — Chris Hedges
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to… — Jonathan Alter
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them,… — Freddie Mercury
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as… — Leo Tolstoy
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a… — Harry S. Truman
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our… — Alexander Hamilton
During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its… — Thomas Jefferson
If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have… — Benjamin Franklin
To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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