Free Press Quotes - Page 2

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Presses, Only Time

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• 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

  Watches, Pace, Way

  "Naomi Wolf v Alan Wolfe, round two". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2007.

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• A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

  Al Gore

  Democracy, Immune System, Representatives

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

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• There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.

  Bill Moyers

  Struggle, Heart, Independent

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• We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

  George W. Bush

  Mind, Looks, Ease

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

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Productions, Presses

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• No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

  Tom Stoppard

  Imperfect Things, Matter, Ifs

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• 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

  Democracy, Wonderful, Responsible

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Water, Agitation, Public Opinion

  Letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 4 Nov. 1823

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• If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Ifs, Presses

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

  Jill Stein

  Democracy, Needs, Firsts

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

  Walter Cronkite

  Government, Argument, Advantage

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• With a free press comes a responsibility.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Responsibility, Presses

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Rights, Risk, Liberty

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• 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

  Responsibility, Government, Land

  "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.

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• The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

  Arundhati Roy

  Media, Democracy, Pillars

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Mother, Freedom, Media

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• You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Government, Roots

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

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• Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, Democracy, Cuba

  "Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies At Age 90" by Tom Gjelten, northernpublicradio.org. November 26, 2016.

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• Truth affirms freedom of speech. Putin is no friend of reli - freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of religion. The U.S. celebrates freedom of religion. Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places or ideas that are in conflict.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Ideas, People, Political

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  Jonathan Sacks

  Independent, Israel, Culture Religion

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• 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

  Blessing, Literature, Magazines

  "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.

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• A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Speech, Dictator, Print

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• The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Reality, Rights

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• 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

  Government, People, Acting

  1811 In the Edinburgh Review, May- Aug.

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