Free press Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “The only time you have a free press is when you own one.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Free press Freedom Only time Presses Time
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time. — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very first amendment.… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today.… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Israel is a country with a thriving free press and a nation known across the world for its support of women's and LGBT rights,… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
“The ability of a free and independent press to hold political leaders accountable is what makes open government possible—it is the heartbeat of democracy.… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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