- Printer's Quiz
- "Freedom of the press is not an end in itself, but a means to the end of a
- free society."
- -Felix Frankfurter 1954
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- The following is a multiple choice test on freedom of the press. There is only one question. If you get it right, you preserve the heritage of freedom for yourself and your children. A correct answer means you gain liberty, democracy, commerce, freedom to worship, and education. If you get it wrong you loose everything.
- PICK ONE
- I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these (for a) hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
William Berkeley Governor of Virginia (1671)
- Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? . . . Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to by a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinion calculated to embarrass the government?
Nikolai Lenin (1870 - 1924)
- Our law concerning the press is such that divergencies of opinion between members of the government are no longer an occasion for public exhibitions, which are none of the newspapers' business. We've eliminated that conception of political freedom which holds that everybody has the right to say whatever comes into his head.
Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
- Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson (1816)
Copyright (C) 1997 by Frank Granger
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