41 Quotes About Freedom-of-the-press

You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Journalists must uphold democracy; they are its fourth and last pillar

I noticed something peculiar when thinking about freedom. Everyone wants it but less are willing to extend the same freedoms to everyone. Seems inconsistent to me.

There is no room for discussing a creed, and mine is the freedom of press

We are talking about preventing our students from reading Huckleberry Finn! And why? Because it offends some people. Show me a book that offends no one, and i will show you a book that no one, in the whole history of the world, has ever willingly read.

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.