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  • 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

  • The only security of all is in a free press.

    Letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 4 Nov. 1823
  • The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.

    "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624". Judicial opinion, 1943.
  • 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.

    Mean   Law   Important  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Fighting   Russia  
    "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.
  • [Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

    Enemy   Putin   Celebrate  
    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • 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.

    "Detroit Free Press Wins Pulitzer Prize". Candice S. Miller, "Congressional Record", Volume 155, Number 59, United States House of Representatives, Page H4588, www.gpo.gov. April 22, 2009.
  • I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

    Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
  • We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

    "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.
  • A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

  • That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

    Jobs   Firsts   Steps  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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.

    "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 1873, supreme.justia.com. June 30, 1971.
  • No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

    "Development as Freedom". Book by Amartya Sen, 1999.
  • 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.

  • A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

    Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press
  • The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • 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.

    Book   Grateful   Issues  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

  • When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.

    Heart   Would Be   Way  
    "A Failure of the Press" by William Bennett and Alan Dershowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. February 23, 2006.
  • A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

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

    Freedom   Media   Liberty  
    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.71, Rowman & Littlefield
  • When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light and transparency to what they're doing. And, one of the ways you do that is through journalism, and through guaranteeing a free press. That is its purpose, to provide a check on those who wield power.

    Dark   Light   People  
  • 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.

    Grosjean v. American Press Co., 297 U.S. 233, (251), 1936.
  • The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.106, Hackett Publishing
  • No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

    Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”
  • The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

    Mother   Freedom   Media  
  • The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

    Concurring in New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 1971.
  • Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.

    Paul Kurtz (1983). “In defense of secular humanism”, Prometheus Books
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