Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

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

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

By freedom of the press I mean that no influence, whether of money or power or any other thing, either directs its policy or inclines it to suppression, or advocacy, for any consideration except the common good.

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

We must have a free press. If we are to maintain democracxy as we know it, we must have a free and adversarial press.... That's how dictoators get power [by intimidating, restriciting and censoring the press.]

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

The only security of all is in a free press.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

If someone tries to put limits on the press, I'll be the first one standing up for the right of press, left and right, to continue saying and being part of the discussion and forwarding the discussion.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

It should be crystal clear to all that violence, intimidation, and the calls for boycotts or for restraints on the freedom of the press are completely unacceptable.