Newspaper Quotes

Tilford Moots wuz over t’ the’ Henryville poor farm th’ other day t’ see an ole friend o’ his thet used t’ publish a newspaper thet pleased ever’buddy.

If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth.

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read.

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high-school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer.

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.

I am a printer, and a printer of news;… I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so be it news.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements.

Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.