Press Quotes

Since the invention of the printing press. It has become a powerful means for disseminating ideas and information. It is not just a transfer of news. Rather it is the eye that monitors authority. The voice that gives the marginalized a platform. The lung through which true democracies breathe. In our digital age. And despite the enormous challenges of fake news and eroding trust. A free press remains a fundamental pillar of an informed society. Here are sayings contemplating the message and impact of the press.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discern...
Quote by John F. Kennedy: And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj....
Quote by Victor Hugo: Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever w...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press....
Quote by H. L. Mencken: What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to ev...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property ...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; ano...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: The only time you have a free press is when you own one....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be mo...
Quote by Benjamin Franklin: If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of pub...
Quote by Joseph Stalin: The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon....
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democ...
Quote by Albert Camus: A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
Quote by Nelson Mandela: A free press is one of the pillars of democracy....
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is crimin...
Quote by Albert Camus: Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation ...
Quote by Ronald Reagan: I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am p...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The Peo...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood....
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego....
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine....