A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder read more

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, read more

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 mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable

Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one.

Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand read more

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge

In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.

In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.