Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 288 Press quotesPress QuotesPress Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.~ Justice Tom C. Clark You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.~ Bill Clinton A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.~ Henry Steele Commager Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.~ Joseph Conrad He [a U.S. Senator] knows he's got to buy time on my radio station, so he's going to lend me an ear. We're keeping them alive back home and that's why the newspaper and radio and TV people are more effective lobbyists.~ Joseph Costello 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.~ Walter Cronkite There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.~ Clarence S. Darrow They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.~ Alexis de Tocqueville In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates…~ Alexis de Tocqueville I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.~ Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.~ Alexis de Tocqueville [Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.~ Milovan Djilas The notion of editorial independence from ownership only dates back to the 1930s. Prior to that time the media was openly biased and that includes the Press that the founding fathers dealt with. Some of the founders like Hamilton and Franklin had actually ran media outlets that were very biased. You used to have things like Newspapers that openly proclaimed they were a Democratic or Republican or Whig or a Federalist newspaper right on the banner. The concept of an independent and allegedly neutral press was and still is mainly pushed by people from the left who do NOT want anything remotely neutral, but who instead want to make sure those "evil" business interests don't have a means of getting their side aired without it being filtered by their idea of what a neutral press consists of.~ John Dobbins It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.~ Justice William O. Douglas The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.~ Justice William O. Douglas Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.~ Frederick Douglass When books are challenged, restricted, removed, or banned, an atmosphere of suppression exists…. The fear of the consequences of censorship is as damaging as, or perhaps more damaging than, the actual censorship attempt. After all, when a published work is banned, it can usually be found elsewhere. Unexpressed ideas, unpublished works, unpurchased books are lost forever.~ Robert P. Doyle This article will probably be photocopied and passed around the offices of exactly the same organizations that queue up to denounce copyright theft.~ The Economist The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.~ Albert Einstein Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print