Government Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the…

— Thomas Jefferson

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them…

— Franklin D Roosevelt

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

— Grace Kelly

The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was…

— Hugo Black

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

— C. Edwin Baker

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

— John Quincy Adams

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

— Orhan Pamuk

There is no such thing as absolute freedom of the press, not even in the most advanced countries in the world. There are things…

— Mahathir Mohamad

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when…

— Anatole France

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

— Tom Scholz

Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press,…

— Dick Durbin