America Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

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

The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every…

— Henry David Thoreau

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about…

— Bennett Cerf

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

— Tim LaHaye

School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.

— Paul Vitz

“A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.”

— John A. Buehrens

“I quickly realized that the press was a double-edged sword because of what instantly became the world’s most popular book: it was the Bible.…

— Kenneth C. Johnson

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

— D. Patrick Miller

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

— Will Herberg

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

— William C. Brown

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

— Herbert Hoover

“America was always a religious country, and it remains the most religious of industrialized Western democracies. America derived its strength from religion, not secularism.”

— Dennis Prager