Government Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

— Thomas Jefferson

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it…

— Thomas Jefferson

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

— Sally Quinn

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

— Clay Shirky

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

— Nevil Shute

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

— Jacob Weisberg

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

— Thomas Jefferson