(2128 quotes found)
“The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which”
James Matthew Barrie
“Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to”
Helen Swaffer
“The press is our chief ideological weapon.”
Nikita Khrushchev
“I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.”
John Haynes Holmes
“I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, "Put not your trust in princes." Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.”
Walter Lippmann
“Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.”
Robert H. Schuller
“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.”
A. J. Liebling
“Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed”
Coleman Cox
“Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.”
Maureen Dowd