“There is something very honorable about finding the truth and doing the best you can to eliminate your own prejudices and biases, and say wherever the story is going to take me is where I am going to go.” — Neal Shapiro, broadcast news executive, 2002

“It’s two centuries since the passage of the First Amendment, and our presidential candidates still cannot distinguish establishment from free exercise.” — Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist, 2007

“The conditions for democracy and art are one.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president, 1939

“There is no real freedom without freedom of the press. Words have more power than armies.” — Boguslaw M. Majewski, Polish diplomat, former journalist, 2000

“Never permit the investigative power of government to chill the expression of any opinion to report of what the writer has reason to believe to be the truth.” — William Safire, syndicated columnist, 2001

“What you see is news, what you know is background, and what you feel is opinion.” — Lester Markel, editor, 1946

“The getting and spending of money are constant topics in news organizations — rarely more so than now with the fierce pressures of Wall Street. Publishing and broadcasting are businesses but journalism isn’t.” — Shelby Coffey, Freedom Forum, 2002

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein, physicist, 1954

“A free press means a free people.” — Leonard Marks, World Press Freedom Committee, general counsel, 1993

— Quotes from First Amendment Calendar, produced by the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, 2009