@realDonaldTrump “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed.” —Hannah Arendt
@realDonaldTrump “Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.” —Thomas Jefferson
@realDonaldTrump “The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted, when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.” —Thomas Jefferson
@realDonaldTrump “A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both.” —James Madison
@realDonaldTrump “The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.” —George Mason
@realDonaldTrump “In the First Amendment, 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.“ —Hugo Black
@realDonaldTrump “The press serves and was designed to serve as a powerful antidote to any abuses of power by governmental officials and as a constitutionally chosen means for keeping officials elected by the people responsible to all the people whom they were selected to serve.” —Hugo Black
@realDonaldTrump “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.” —Hugo Black
@realDonaldTrump “Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” —William Brennan
