Fourth Estate Quotes
- Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. — Thomas Carlyle
- A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. — Thomas Carlyle
- None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing… — Henry Fielding
- The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. — Thomas B. Macaulay