Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
MARY CLEMMER AMES, The Journalist
That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
BEN HECHT, quoted in Jewish Wit and Wisdom
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
G.K. CHESTERTON, All Things Considered
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The way to prevent irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, Jan. 16, 1787
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
GARRISON KEILLOR, "That Old Picayune-Moon," Harper's, Sep. 1990
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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