When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.
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 job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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