Government Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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 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

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

— Thomas Watson, Jr

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

— Adolphe Thiers

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

— Grant Shapps

Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said…

— Wesley Pruden