Democracy Quote by Corazon Aquino

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is…

— Robert Rinder

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

— Felix Frankfurter

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

— Walter Cronkite

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a…

— Anonymous

Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as…

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

— Lord Hailsham

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and…

— United Nations

Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.

— Alastair Farrugia

Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.

— Cullen Hightower

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

— Liu Xiaobo

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

— Frank Murphy

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the…

— Vicente Fox