WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

Marijuana Menace …. If Frankenstein came face to face with someone high on marijuana, he would drop dead of freight.

Weyler the brute, the devastator of haciendas, the destroyer of families, and the outrage of women.

War is a dreadful thing, but there are things more dreadful even than war, one of them is dishonor.

We recognized the imperial government of Russia, but when Russia secures a democratic government we have so far not recognized it.

The time for the State to protect himself against the criminal is before the criminal is made. Most criminals are not born, they are made.... What a State really punishes in a criminal is its own neglect, it's own failure to do its duty to the citizens.

What is murder in the first degree? It is the cruel, calculated, cold-blooded killing of a fellow human man. It is the most wicked of crimes and the State is guilty of it every time it executes a human being.

Why send money abroad that we all admit we need here at home? Why sacrifice the interests of this country for the benefit of Wall Street?

Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

If bad institutions and bad men be got rid of only by killing, then the killing must be done.

... the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

... a living, breathing crime in breeches.

A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot.

All men are created equal in one respect, at least, and that is their desire to be unequal.

Unless we Americans are willing to go on indefinitely, merely to provide loot for Europe, we should personally see to it that a man is elected as President this year whose guiding motto is, "America First.

An animated feather duster.

Any railroad corporation has infinitely more influence in any department of government than all the human beings that live in the territory that the railroad traverses.

Leaders must be reminded that Businesses exist for the service of men.

Choose the manager of your government as you would the manager of your private business.

Gentlemen of the Congress of the United States who put us into this war, it is your duty now to give us sufficient means of making war. If the folks at home did not want you to go to war, it was your duty to think of that before you declared war. It is in no way right or reasonable or wise or patriotic for you to project the Nation into war, and then in unfounded fear for your own future, deny the Nation the method best qualified and calculated to make victorious war.

Your friends are merely proposing to waste their good money. If I am Governor, whenever business is honest I will encourage it without a hundred thousand dollar bribe. If their business is dishonest, not all the money in Wall Street would influence my attitude toward it. Honest business needs no bribe.

I believe in war, if the people want war. They have to do the fighting. I believe, first, in a referendum to the people, and failing that, a decision by the people's representatives in Congress assembled.

I do not allow hirelings of Standard Oil to define my democracy.