Quotes on Free Press

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.