People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Newspaper Quotes
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.
It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
There is a a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily… Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free […]
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book people read. It is the only book they read every day.
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep the right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should […]
My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.
The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account.
