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Thomas Jefferson3 quotes
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. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. — Thomas Jefferson · 1807The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them. — Thomas Jefferson · 1807Adolph S. Ochs1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Aleister Crowley1 quote
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. — Aleister Crowley · 1929Capt. Ed Hocken1 quote
It's disgusting the way they splash this stuff all over the newspapers! What is journalism coming to? You're laying on top of the queen with her legs wrapped around you and they call that news. They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair! — Capt. Ed Hocken · 1988Leo Tolstoy1 quote
All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat. — Leo Tolstoy · 1871Norman Mailer1 quote
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. — Norman Mailer · 1960Tom Stoppard1 quote
I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand. — Tom Stoppard · 1978Walter Lippmann1 quote
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 most people most people read. It is the only book they read every day. — Walter Lippmann · 1920