"If in other lands the press and..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”

“It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.”

“Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.”

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”

“It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.”

“Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's been held for a year and a half. He embodies the brave spirit that gives life to the freedom of the press. Jason has already been reunited with his wife and mom.”

“Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.”

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”

“Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.”