Criminals Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

— Thomas Carlyle

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you…

— Stephen Colbert

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is…

— Theodore White

“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests…

— Henry Adams

The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.

— John Lewis

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it…

— Thomas Jefferson

A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big…

— Craig Newmark

“What is the Liberty of the Press? Who can give it any definition which does not leave the utmost latitude for evasion? I hold…

— David Alan Corbin

“Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us…

— Benjamin Franklin