The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

- Warren Buffet

Thomas Carlyle

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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

- Thomas Carlyle

Finley Peter Dunne

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There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

- Finley Peter Dunne

Paul Eldridge

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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

- Paul Eldridge

Henry Fielding

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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

- Henry Fielding

Jean de La Fontaine

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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

- Jean de La Fontaine

Gene Fowler

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News is history shot on the wing.

- Gene Fowler

Ben Hecht

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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

Elbert Hubbard

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Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

- Elbert Hubbard

Thomas Jefferson

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

- Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

- Thomas Jefferson

Lyndon B. Johnson

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Norman Mailer

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

- Norman Mailer

Arthur Miller

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

- Arthur Miller

Christopher Morley

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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

- Christopher Morley

P.J. O'Rourke

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Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

- P.J. O'Rourke

Wendell Phillips

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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

- Wendell Phillips

David Rockefeller

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We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.

- David Rockefeller

George Bernard Shaw

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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

- Mark Twain

Earl Warren

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I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.

- Earl Warren

Rebecca West

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Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

- Rebecca West

Malcolm X

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If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

- Malcolm X