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A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.
Sep 29, 2025
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
With a free press comes a responsibility.
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.
The only time you have a free press is when you own one.
A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
The only security of all is in 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.
[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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.
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.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
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.
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.
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.
No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
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.
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
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.
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.
I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day--both at home and abroad - ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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.
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.
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
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.
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.
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.
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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.