Forts Quote by Henry David Thoreau

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

— James F. Cooper

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

— Che Guevara

“Take away the newspaper—and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts—so far as we…

— Harry Chandler

The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and…

— Walter Lippmann

“In a representative democracy, the media is in a unique position to shine a light on those with power and how they wield it.…

— Richard Haas

“Don't tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they…

— Antony Jay

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

— Jacob Weisberg

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the…

— Walter Lippmann

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate…

— Thomas Jefferson

A scared journalist produces a lifeless citizen. If our news is scared of the government, it is great injustice to readers and viewers who…

— Ravish Kumar

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

— Henry David Thoreau