Quotes About The Free Press

#1. Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

Jasper Fforde

#2. The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

E. E. Cummings

#3. 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.

Naomi Wolf

#4. The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Hugo Black

#5. The media, like anything else, can be bought. Everything, it seems, has its price. Even the free press.

Lance Morcan

#6. Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

Karl Marx

#8. I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

Morrissey

#9. The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#10. You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

Frank Hague

#11. The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.

Glenn Greenwald

#12. No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

Robert Kennedy

#13. I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Samuel Dash

#14. A free press is equally free to print the truth or ignore it, as it chooses.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#15. What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

Esther Dyson

#16. Montrose decided then and there that a full library, one made of old-fashioned paper books with bindings, the kind that cannot be electronically re-edited by anonymous lines of hidden code, was just as much a necessity for a free man as a shooting iron or a printing press.

John C. Wright

#17. Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it's vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press.

David Cameron

#18. I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

Milos Forman

#19. Well. You have a secret from me," he said in the end. "No, don't turn away from me. Did you think I would try to press or conjure it out of you? Never that. Friends must be free. My tormenting you to find it would build a worse barrier between us than your hiding it.

C.S. Lewis

#20. It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.

Adolf Hitler

#21. As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone

Rita Stradling

#22. The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

Fidel Castro

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

Thomas Jefferson

#24. The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

Benito Mussolini

#25. One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.

Eli Roth

#26. How the press, for example, loves to brag to its victims - its readers - about its freedom. Yes, the press may be free to lie and distort and suppress and deceive and malign, but is it free to tell the truth?

Willis Carto

#27. Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

Neil Postman

#28. There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere in Europe or in other countries is there a media that is as free as the press in Turkey.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#29. A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Dan Rather

#30. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

U.S. Congress

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

Albert Camus

#32. I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

Nelson Mandela

#33. The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

Arundhati Roy

#34. Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.

Mark McKinnon

#35. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson

#36. Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.

Cherie Blair

#37. So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.

Robert Scheer

#38. When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Christopher Dodd

#39. The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

James Mill

#40. Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

Rosa Luxemburg

#41. It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#42. Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do."?

Ted Olson

#43. A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

Ludwig Von Mises

#44. Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

Hugo Black

#45. The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it
sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

Benjamin Disraeli

#46. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Edward Snowden

#47. I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.

Steven Magee

#48. A managed democracy is a wonderful thing ... for the managers ... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

Robert A. Heinlein

#49. Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.

Hodding Carter III

#50. It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.

Edward R. Murrow

#51. One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.

Astra Taylor

#52. Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

Garry Kasparov

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#54. Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

Mike Rogers

#55. As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Mike Pence

#56. As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

Candy Crowley

#57. The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.

L. Neil Smith

#58. You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

John Podhoretz

#59. To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

Alexander Hamilton

#60. He goes to the olive-press of Gethsemane, and draws his supplies from him who was crushed therein. The oil of gospel grace is pure and free from lees and dregs, and hence the light which is fed thereon is clear and bright.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#61. And so it is to the printing press
to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news
that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

John F. Kennedy

#62. Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government.

Candice S. Miller

#63. Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition ... well, they are still radical ideas.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#64. The purpose of a free press, in which I believe believe it or not, is so that people can make rational decisions in a democracy. They'd already perverted the process so bad that was hard, but the point is valid.

John Ringo

#65. I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

Harold Wilson

#66. Hosni Mubarak ... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

Naguib Mahfouz

#67. The only time you have a free press is when you own one.

H.L. Mencken

#68. The only security of all is in a free press.

Thomas Jefferson

#69. Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There are things I feel I cannot even write.

Sarah Harrison

#70. Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

Aysha Taryam

#71. Let us to the Press Devoted Be,
Its Light will Shine and Speak Us Free.

David Ruggles

#72. The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

Alan Barth

#73. The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi

#74. Every free man has a right to the use of the press, so he has to the use of his arms.

Tench Coxe

#75. Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jim Bishop

#76. As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.

John Adams

#77. A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

George Sutherland

#78. 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.

Felix Frankfurter

#79. Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#80. We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech
because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

Barack Obama

#81. It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

Chuck Baldwin

#82. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

Frank Church

#83. In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.

Marvin Ammori

#84. The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Herbert Hoover

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

Felix Frankfurter

#86. Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Robert Frost

#87. Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

Luna DeMasi

#88. Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

Jesse Jackson

#89. Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk,

Wayne LaPierre

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

Christiane Amanpour

#91. The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chris Chocola

#92. 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.

Hugo Black

#93. One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Ferdinand Mount

#94. The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

Colin Powell

#95. The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

James Buchan

#96. In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it ... you don't buy it.

Ian Hislop

#97. A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

Nelson Mandela

#98. We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Robert Scheer

#99. We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press ... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

Elliott Abrams

#100. I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.

Sebastian Pinera