“A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.”

— Winston S. Churchill

You Get It In Black And White, Collier's, 28 December 1935
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 323. ISBN 0903988453
The 1930s

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