Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Edito...rialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the wi...ll.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hm, the beacon of the press. In the hell to which all journalists must descend when they die, Mr. Wiggam, we shall sit at red hot ...desks with quills of fire in our hand and spend eternity on eternity writing about the salubrious weather of that region. Let us serve our apprenticeship here thoroughly and intelligently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus, and trial by juries impart...ially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of th...e press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience is held by the same ...tenure with all our rights. [The legislature] are bound to leave this particular right untouched and sacred, [or] we must say, that they may control freedom of the press, may abolish the trial by jury, may swallow the Executive and the Judiciary Powers of the State; nay that they may despoil us of our very right of suffrage ... or we must say, that they have no authority to enact [a religious assessment].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of ...the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of s...uch far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the pr...ess but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »