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 George Mason
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
