This collection holds 15 freedom of the press quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and Hugo Black.

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The only security of all is in a free press.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

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