Joseph Pulitzer

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to…

— Joseph Pulitzer

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

— Joseph Pulitzer

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Don't be sensitive if I should, in future, seem brusque, harsh, or even unjust in my criticism. I sincerely hope I never…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I breakfast when I get up, lunch when I get the chance. If I never get it, I forget it. Sometimes I…

— Joseph Pulitzer

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in…

— Joseph Pulitzer

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

— Joseph Pulitzer

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

— Joseph Pulitzer

I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make.

— Joseph Pulitzer

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

— Joseph Pulitzer

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.

— Joseph Pulitzer

They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

It only serves to show what sort of person a man must be who can't even get testimonials. No, no; if a…

— Joseph Pulitzer

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation,…

— Joseph Pulitzer

There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know…

— Joseph Pulitzer

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

— Joseph Pulitzer

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!

— Joseph Pulitzer

The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I…

— Joseph Pulitzer