Family Quote by Victor Hugo

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

— Thomas Jefferson

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

— Will Hurd

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

— Thomas Jefferson

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne…

— Samuel Johnson

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

— Albert Camus

The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

— Felix Frankfurter

“The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established…

— Jack London

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

— Felix Frankfurter

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be…

— Fisher Ames

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by…

— Marshall Herskovitz