Only in democratic countries is there the beginning of a suspicion that the old axioms about the press being the bulwark of liberty is something that affects the daily life of the people--that it is a living warning rather than an ancient wisecrack. A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.

But much more vicious than these cases is the majority of foreign correspondents who never have to be placed against the wall, who are never told what to write…

All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.

I am merely trying to illustrate one of the fundamental facts about American journalism today, the fact that the servants of the press lords are slaves very mu…

The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we sh…

'Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.' -- Speech at the U…