- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Free Press Quotes
Words in defense of a free press.
These quotes treat a free press as democracy's cornerstone, not an abstraction, an institution worth defending in the words of journalists and public figures who did exactly that. See our Democracy quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those who hold power over us?
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Process
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.
- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
- Independence
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
- Government
- |
- Nov 07, 2020