Book Quote by Walter Lippmann

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

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 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

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to…

— Joseph Pulitzer

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what…

— Herbert Bayard Swope

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is…

— C. P. Scott

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or…

— Daniel Handler

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

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world,…

— Sally Quinn

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

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

— Mahatma Gandhi