When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that’s news. If they aren’t, that’s news too.
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.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
