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“When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light and transparency to what they're doing. And, one of the ways you do that is through journalism, and through guaranteeing a free press. That is its purpose, to provide a check on those who wield power.”

People Way Needs Light Purpose Force Dark Abuse Presses Checks Journalism Transparency Free Press

Author:Glenn Greenwald

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

Believe Important I Believe Institutions Presses Democratic Democratic Society Free Press

Author:Jeremy Scahill

“The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.”

Mean Littles Democracy Modern Highest Independent Election Crisis Presses Profound Available Commodity Free Market Judiciary Free Press Free Elections Independent Judiciary

Author:Arundhati Roy

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.”

“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.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“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.”

Way Firsts Heart Reason Would Be Virtue Institutions Presses Surrender Hated Free Press Islamists Sept 11

Author:William Bennett

“One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.”

People Feels Trying Book Issues Groups Internet Consequence Grateful Presses Topics Infrastructure Urgent Tubes Free Press Nonprofits

Author:Astra Taylor

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

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“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.”

“I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.”

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Author:Peter Pace

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

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Author:Jill Stein

“The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.”

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Author:Andy Garcia

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

Ideas Belief Democracy Prove Agree Presses Communist Cuba Free Press

Author:Fidel Castro

“I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.”

Periods Presses Free Press Enamored

Author:Barbara Boxer

“[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.”

Enemy Presses Celebrate Putin Free Press

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“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.”

People Ideas Political Enemy Violence Conflict Speech Presses Arguing Celebrate Freedom Of Speech Dissent Putin No Friends Freedom Of Religion Free Press

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“With a free press comes a responsibility.”

Responsibility Presses Free Press

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.”

Bigs America Enemy Presses Free Press

Author:Jonathan Karl

“That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.”

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Author:Mark Shields

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

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.”

America Seeing Tradition Presses Journalism Renaissance Free Press Investigative Journalism

Author:Ben H. Winters

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Different Reality Might Sides Support Trump Right Now Election Presses Vigilance Great Gifts Free Press Membranes Different Realities

Author:Ben H. Winters

“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.”

Problem America Democracy Policy Serious Presses Democratic Vulnerable Falsehood Discourse Immune Assertion Immune System Free Press

Author:Al Gore

“A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.”

Democracy Presses Representatives Immune Immune System Free Press

Author:Al Gore

“I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

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Author:A. J. Liebling

“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.”

Needs Voice Watches Events England Presses Dues Olympics Royal Foul Dazzling Free Press Jingoism

Author:Steven Morrissey

“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.”

People Government Dies Responsibility Land Duty Shots Presses Deceiving Shells Fever Hype Paramount Free Press

Author:Hugo Black

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

Years Equal India Presses Thirty Grants Division Republic Inheritance Thirty Years Free Press Republic Day

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

Inspiration Fear Power Four Thousand Historical Newspapers Hostile Freedom Of The Press Free Press Bayonets

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“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.”

Way Process Watches Depends Presses Journalist Pace Publishing Fascists Free Press Escalation

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“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'.”

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Book:Moon Is Harsh Mistres

Source: Moon Is Harsh Mistres

“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.”

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Author:James Buchan

“The only security of all is in a free press.”

Security Presses Freedom Of The Press Free Press

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence... they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and... a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have.”

“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.”

Mean Presses Free Press

Book:Two Trains Running: A Novel

Source: Two Trains Running: A Novel

“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”

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Author:e. e. cummings

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.”

“Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do?”

Ifs Wells States Waiting Five Integrity Vote Presses Citizenship Foxes Approved Free Press

Author:Ted Olson

“If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free”

Ifs Kind Book Literature Effort Land Media Presses Libertarian All Kinds Censorship Civil Liberties Free Press Censored Media Control

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

Source: Brave New World Revisited

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

Has Beens Whole Democracy Movement Presses Reform Iran Emerging Free Press

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.”

Men Enjoy Powerful Media Pride Presses Free Press Printing Press

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

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

Government Simple Speech Concepts Presses Presidential Telling The Truth Free Speech Free Press Durability

Book:Addresses Upon the American Road

Source: Addresses Upon the American Road

“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.”

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.”

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