Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

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• Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has…
• A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
• Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
• Iwill always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose…
• Newspapers should have no friends.
• I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to…
• I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and…
• 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 popular…
• The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no causes bit its…
• 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…
• There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not…
• My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.
• A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot…
• The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all,…
• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and…
• There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice…
• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.
• 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…

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