Freedom of the press is not ...

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
 Walter Cronkite

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
 Walter Cronkite
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
 Walter Cronkite
I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
 Walter Cronkite
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
 Walter Cronkite
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.
 Walter Cronkite