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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Dr. James Currie (28 January 1786) Lipscomb & Bergh 18:ii
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Spiro Agnew1918–1996Speech in San Diego (September 11, 1970)
- Clever Jabs
You were merely asked to bend, but you chose to crawl.
L. K. Advaniborn 1927To the Indian press as Information and Broadcasting Minister (1977), on its conduct during the Emergency
- Clever Jabs
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
Will Rogers1879–1935Nationally syndicated column number 42, Blames All Ills on Earthquake (1923)
- Comedy
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963That Hideous Strength (1945), Ch. 13: They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven on Their Heads
You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Address to the Associated Press (20 April 1915)
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790“Apology for Printers” (1730)
- Freedom
Power can be very addictive. And it can be corrosive. And it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.
George W. Bushborn 1946Interview with Matt Lauer (2017)
- Power
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter’s Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), “The Hero as Man of Letters”
Personal columnists … are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Letter from Cuba (1934)
- Clever Jabs
As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
Vladimir Lenin1870–1924Collected Works, Vol. 32, pp. 504–9.
- Freedom