Newspaper Quotes

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

I shall never tolerate the newspapers to say or do anything against my interests; they may publish a few little articles with just a little poison in them, but one fine morning somebody will shut their mouths.

All I know is what I read in the papers.

I am considerably concerned when I see the extent to which we are developing a one-party press in a two-party country.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

I never read French newspapers, they print only what I want them to.

I picked up a newspaper today and I couldn’t believe it. I read eight headlines that talked about chaos, violence, unrest. And it just was Henny Penny – ‘The sky is falling’. I’ve never seen anything like it! (Looting in Iraq)

Freedom of the press… is freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertisers don’t object to.