Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

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

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

The ministry of interior may censor newspapers and ban them if they include anything that violates public security, threatens national unity, or contradicts Islam.

I believe that the defendants had as much right to publish as the Government has to publish the Constitution.

Put that [news]paper in your pocket, Baron, and should you hear the reality of our liberty, the freedom of the press questioned, show them this paper, and tell them where you found it.

The liberty of thinking and of publishing whatever one likes ... is the fountain-head of many evils.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the church, counted its martyrs by thousands..

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

Where States impose unlawful censorship through filtering and other technologies, the use of encryption and anonymity may empower individuals to circumvent barriers and access information and ideas without the intrusion of authorities. Journalists, researchers, lawyers and civil society rely on encryption and anonymity to shield themselves (and their sources, clients and partners) from surveillance and harassment. The ability to search the web, develop ideas and communicate securely may be the only way in which many can explore basic aspects of identity, such as one’s gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin or sexuality.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

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

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

The press is the enemy.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

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.