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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.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in read more
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.
In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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.
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
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
Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great read more
Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.
