Free Press Quotes Page 2

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

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans 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.

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

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

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.

The press and free speech landscape has totally changed.

There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."

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.

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.

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and the leaders of the various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment too. It guarantees my free speech as much as it does their freedom of the press.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

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

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.

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

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

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 is not only free, it is powerful.

That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

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.

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.

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

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

As Americans we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free thinking and engaged audience.

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.

No government ought to be without censors;

and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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.

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.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

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

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.

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

There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

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

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

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.

I have sworn to uphold the Constitution .

.. and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

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.