George Sutherland: Press

George Sutherland was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives. Explore interesting quotes on press.

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“A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.”

George Sutherland

Grosjean v. American Press Co. (1936)

“Since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgement of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.”

George Sutherland

Grosjean v. American Press Co. (1936)

“It is impossible to concede that, by the words "freedom of the press," the framers of the amendment intended to adopt merely the narrow view then reflected by the law of England that such freedom consisted only in immunity from previous censorship, for this abuse had then permanently disappeared from English practice. It is equally impossible to believe that it was not intended to bring within the reach of these words such modes of restraint as were embodied in the two forms of taxation already described.”

George Sutherland

Grosjean v. American Press Co. (1936)