Able Quote by Joseph Pulitzer

For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

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

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right…

— Joseph Pulitzer

The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace…

— Thomas McKean

We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a…

— Bob Iger

Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in…

— Candice S. Miller

“In modern democracies, press freedom was being used as a cloak to shield media conglomerates’ domination of public discussion ‘in which misinformation may be…

— Ian Hargreaves

Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a means of…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted…

— Allan Bloom

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

— Roger Mudd

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The…

— Honore de Balzac