Jim Bishop Quotes

If we shake the pillar of a free and objective press, we're harming our American national interests.

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

Being a reporter is at the very core of a democracy, being a free person in a free society.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

A people without reliable news is, sooner or later, a people without the basis of freedom.

… the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And 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.

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

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

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

In America we don’t apologize for opinions, that’s why we have a 1st Amendment. If we can’t discuss even controversial opinions in the pages of our newspapers, where are we going to do it?

The world revolves on its axis subject to the Constitution of the United States, and the most Radical newspaper man in London

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

What would this country be like without the press prying to find out what the government is doing?

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

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

Freedom of the press and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

Freedom of the Press and Constitutional Liberty must live or perish together.