Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Every newspaper lives by appealing to a particular public. It can only go ahead of its times if it carries its public with it. Success in journalism depends on understanding the public.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

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

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.

Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

News is the first rough draft of history.

[Commenting on Shays' Rebellion:] The way to prevent these regular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro' the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people.