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"A free press is one of the pillars of democracy"
Nelson MandelaAnti-Apartheid Revolutionary and Politician
"When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered."
Christopher DoddAmerican Politician
"What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press."
Esther DysonAmerican Journalist
“The only security of all is in a free press.”
Thomas Jefferson American Founding Father
“Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.”
George OrwellNovelist and Journalist
“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”
Ida B. WellsJournalist and Suffragist
"Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty."
Herbert HooverAmerican President
"Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government."
Hugo BlackAmerican Politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
"Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego."
Mahatma GandhiIndian Activist
"Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’"
Arthur Hays SulzbergeNewspaper Publisher
'Without a free press there can be no free society.'
Felix FrankfurterAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court

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