Kate Adie Quotes

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.

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

If we shake the pillar of a free and objective press, we're harming our American national interests.

I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

In Canada we respect freedom of speech but we do not worship it.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

Better a thousandfold abuse of speech than a denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Freedom of the press and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution.

If you don't think a television news show represents the truth, you can turn off your TV. If you don't think a magazine represents the truth, you can cancel your subscription. You have the right to expose yourself to whatever information you want. But to have the government prescribing what the truth is or limiting the information available for the citizen is contrary to the 1st Amendment.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

A people without reliable news is, sooner or later, a people without the basis of freedom.

… the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

If you have an open society that what happens—people say things and they criticize you.

No man ought to be hindered saying or writing what he pleases on the conduct of those who undertake the management of national affairs, in which all are concerned, and therefore have the right to inquire, and to publish their suspicions concerning them. For if you punish the slanderer, you deter the fair inquirer.

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

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

The right to insult members of the government is inviolable.

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousand-fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.