Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.
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Anonymous
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Thomas Jefferson
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
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George Mason
Freedom of conscience of education of speech of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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F. D. Roosevelt
Freedom of the press is the staff of life for any vital democracy.
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Wendell L. Willkie
More Quotes By Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power...
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
