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Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

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

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

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.

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

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