Wendell Phillips Quotes

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

The freedom of the press throughout the world where the capitalists rule, is the freedom to buy up papers, the freedom to buy writers, to buy and manufacture public opinion in the interest of the capitalists.

Newspapers form public opinion, but public opinion also influences newspapers. The general masses are not like horses that can be tamed and trained to do their masters bidding.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.