Branches Quote by John Peter Zenger

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

— Thomas Jefferson

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

— Albert Camus

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty

— Adlai E Stevenson

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone

— Edgar Watson Howe

The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution…

— Harry Browne

That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the…

— James Madison

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons…

— Charles Evans Hughes

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

— George Mason

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

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be…

— Fisher Ames

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

— Algernon Sidney