There is a a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily… Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free […]
Newspaper Quotes
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book people read. It is the only book they read every day.
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep the right; and 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 […]
My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.
The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account.
It is, however, an evil for which there is no remedy, our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Everything you read in the newspaper is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
A press monopoly is incompatible with a free press; and one can proceed with this principle: if there is a monopoly of the means of communications – of radio, television, magazines, books, public meetings – it follows that this society is by definition and in fact deprived of freedom.
The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
