Facts Quote by Thomas Jefferson

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

— Benjamin Franklin

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England…

— John Adams

“A printer can do the same thing and much more. He can preserve the Law, but he can also preserve the words of madmen.…

— Marek Halter

“In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised.”

— Anna Funder

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

— Alan Sugar

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep…

— Samuel Johnson

Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's…

— Germaine Greer

The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee…

— Harold Innis

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because…

— George Orwell

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

— John Milton

I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from…

— Melissa Gira Grant

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