Journalism

"The press is like the air, a chartered libertine."

"The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease."

"Cela est escrit. Il est vray."

"Can it be maintained that a person of any education can learn anything worth knowing from a penny paper? It may be said that people may learn what is said in Parliament. Well, will that contribute to their education?"

"The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous—licentious—abominable—infernal—not that I ever read them—no—I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper."

"Trade hardly deems the busy day begun Till his keen eye along the sheet has run; The blooming daughter throws her needle by, And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh; While the grave mother puts her glasses on, And gives a tear to some old crony gone. The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings."

"Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law."

"The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair."

"Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true — except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."

"In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever."

"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."

"I do not care for the big 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers."

"Journalism is the first rough draft of history."