Ifs Quote by James F. Cooper

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

— Che Guevara

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced…

— H. L. Mencken

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

The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read…

— Henry David Thoreau

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it…

— H. L. Mencken

I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a…

— Rupert Murdoch

Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the…

— Richard Kluger

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

— Will McDonough

“Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace…

— Thomas McKean

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them.…

— Michael Moore

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power,…

— Mark Twain