John T. Delane Quotes

The journalist observes the laws of his country, but when the fulfillment of his professional duty is concerned he recognizes the jurisdiction of his colleagues only, and rejects any attempts of pressure and interference from the side of the government or whoever else.

The press should form a fortress of steel round the republic. The republic has a right to demand this from journalists. The struggle is not over; the press has a duty to convey this truth to the nation and safeguard its unity.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

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

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.

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks.

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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

A free press needs to be a respected press.

What would this country be like without the press prying to find out what the government is doing?

The first duty of the Press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them to make them the common property of the nation.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

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

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.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

It is a free press...There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.

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

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?