Freedom Of The Press Quotes - Page 6

• The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Gun, Strong Arms

  "The writings of Thomas Jefferson".

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• Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  Frank Murphy

  Freedom Of Speech, Double Standard, Action

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• An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Men, Ordinary

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• If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds

  Bill Moyers

  Equality, Thinking, Media Control

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• Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Freedom Of Speech, Together

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Blessing, Liberty

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.191

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• No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Interesting, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• Since the Donald Trump election, which has involved this administration making direct attacks on press freedoms, you're actually seeing a certain amount of rallying and reinvigoration by the national press in terms of covering national issues and the presidency. The Washington Post and The New York Times, Mother Jones, ProPublica and a lot of other places, they've actually done some really strong work when confronted with this administration. But the resources that you used to have at state and local level aren't there anymore.

  David Simon

  Mother, Strong, Done

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens.

  Pietra Rivoli

  Country, Jobs, Mean

  Source: content.time.com

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• There shouldn't be any censorship. This is America. There shouldn't be any of this freedom of the press, freedom of expression, but having said that, I think what's important is that people who make movies don't try to falsely lure people in to see the movie that don't want to be there. A kid should not see Evil Dead and we knew that.

  Bruce Campbell

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: www.deadites.net

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• I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent possible. In our democracy, the work of the Pentagon press corps is important, defending our freedom and way of life is what this conflict is about, and that certainly includes freedom of the press.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Democracy, Important

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• They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Freedom, Might, Cry

  "Can Turkey under Erdoğan any longer" by Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2014.

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• I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'

  Mike Godwin

  Appreciation, Children, Years

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• Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Integrity, Government

  Address To The General Assembly Of The International Press Institute At Helsinki Wednesday, June 9, 1971.

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• If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.

  Tom Wicker

  Responsibility, America, Needs

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• There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.

  Susan Stebbing

  Thinking, Stupidity, Desire

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• Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Rights, Class

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• Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party

  Nelson Mandela

  Party, Long, Majority

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• Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order."
  - John V. Lindsay
  "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Government, Order, Law

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• Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

  Marshall Field

  Reality, Guarantees, Speech

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• Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

  Otto Schily

  Mean, Scandal, Doe

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• The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.

  Samuel Gompers

  Order, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Samuel Gompers (1967). “Seventy Years of Life and Labour: An Autobiography”

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• The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.

  Harold Innis

  Impact, Rights, Printed Word

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.56, University of Toronto Press

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• Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Culture

  Source: portside.org

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• What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Liberty, Printing, Presses

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