Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

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

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

Freedom of expression is freedom of information

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

Freedom of the Press and Constitutional Liberty must live or perish together.

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

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.

… 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.

Liberty of the press is a privilege to publish, with impunity, falsehood on matters of public concern, in the honest belief it is truth, with good motives, for justifiable ends

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.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free..

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.]

Freedom of expression is very important.

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.