“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” Hubert H. Humphrey, (1911-1978) US Vice-President, US Senator (D-MN). Source: Speech, Madison, WI, 23 August 1965. Source Reference Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

“The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.” Edgar Watson Howe, (1853-1937). Source: Country Town Sayings, 1911. Source Reference Edgar Watson Howe Quote

“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the…

“People everywhere confuse, what they read in newspapers with news.” A. J. Liebling, [Abbott Joseph Liebling] (1904-1963) American journalist, author. Source: The New Yorker, 7 April 1956. Source Reference A. J. Liebling Quote

“What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.” H….

“A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.” Ernest Bevin, (1881-1951) British Foreign Minister. Source: at London Conference of Foreign Ministers, 10 Feb. 1946, quoted in The…

“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by…

“A radical is one who speaks the truth.” Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., (1859-1924) Congressman (R-MN), father of famous aviator, June 15, 1957. Source Reference Famous Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. Quote

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken…

“Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man.” Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish…

“No nation, ancient or modern, ever lost the liberty of speaking freely, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.” John Peter Zenger, (1697-1746). Source Reference John Peter Zenger Quote

“Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather,…