Freedom of the press Quote by Hugo Black Download Open image “The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.” — Hugo Black ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom of the press Governors Presses
The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time. — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse… — William J. H. Boetcker 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
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
“Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
“People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion, freedom of… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“This country prides itself on freedom of the press and went to war with England because you wanted religious freedom” — Lin Wilder 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
