Walter Lippmann Quotes

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

Being a reporter is at the very core of a democracy, being a free person in a free society.

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

There is no democracy without journalism.

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

The only security of all is in a free press.

I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

Only in democratic countries is there the beginning of a suspicion that the old axioms about the press being the bulwark of liberty is something that affects the daily life of the people--that it is a living warning rather than an ancient wisecrack. A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press..

Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to defend. One I did, in fact, defend for 37 years.

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

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell in a society where belief in our governments and in the strength of our institutions is declining.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.