Nasri Lahoud Quotes

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

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

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

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

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.]

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

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

The political misrepresentation of facts is one of the incidents of a free press in every free country.

The fourth estate which if not well looked to, will turn us all out of doors.

No government ought to be without censors: & where the press is free, no one ever will.

Democracy without a free press is inconceivable.

Freedom of the press, printing, publication and mass media shall be guaranteed. Censorship on newspapers is forbidden as well as notifying, suspending or cancelling them by administrative methods. In a state of emergency or in time of war a limited censorship may be imposed on the newspapers, publications and mass media in matters related to public safety or purposes of national security in accordance with the law.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

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

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

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.

The press must be free; it has always been so and much evil has been corrected by it. If Government finds itself annoyed by it, let it examine its own conduct and it will find the cause.

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

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

You really can’t have a democracy if the government knows the content of every conversation between journalists and their sources. You can’t have a democracy with that kind of surveillance going on.

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.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Democracies die in darkness.... I don't realluy think that President Trump really believes that the press is the "enemy of the people"