Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party,… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Don't be sensitive if I should, in future, seem brusque, harsh, or even unjust in my criticism. I sincerely hope I never shall be;… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I breakfast when I get up, lunch when I get the chance. If I never get it, I forget it. Sometimes I dine at… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
