American Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you…

— Nate Silver

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

— Noam Chomsky

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

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time,…

— Neri Oxman

A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the…

— Anonymous

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and,…

— James E. Burke

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing…

— Howard Rheingold

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

— Charles Evans Hughes

“The Reformation was an attempt to put the Bible at the heart of the Church again--not to give it into the hands of private…

— Rowan Williams

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its…

— Kurt Andersen