Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."
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Presses
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Hugo Black
Justice
"The press was to serve the governed, not the governors."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Desire presses ever forward unsubdued."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom."
Mother Jones
Labor Activist
"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."
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"Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land."
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"You have mosquitoes. I have the Press."
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"I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon."
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"The press is, almost without exception, corrupt."
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"I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions."
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"I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out."
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"Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me."
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"If the press descended, the science would surely suffer."
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"I press to my centre, and find there is something there."
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"Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke."
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"I don't want to find myself designing for the press."
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"Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying."
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"The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them."
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"The white press itself created civil right leaders."
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"You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part."
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"I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press"
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"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press."
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"The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden."
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"The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer."
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"You have to press against the pressure that’s pressing against you!"
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