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“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.”

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Author:Felix Frankfurter

“No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.”

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Author:Frank Hague

“A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.”

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Author:George Sutherland

“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.”

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Author:Christopher Dodd

“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.”

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Author:Chuck Baldwin

“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.”

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Author:Walter Lippmann

“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.”

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Author:Robert Scheer

“The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.”

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Author:Fidel Castro

“If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.”

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Author:Samuel

“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.”

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Author:Hugo Black

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

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Author:A. J. Liebling

“A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.”

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Author:George Seldes

“A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.”

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Book:In the Words of Nelson Mandela

Source: In the Words of Nelson Mandela

“The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.”

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Author:Hugo Black

“I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.”

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Author:Milos Forman

“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.”

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Author:Chris Chocola