It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,... than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In those rare days, the press was seldom known to snarl or bark, But sweetly sang of men in pow'r, like any tuneful lark; .../>Grave judges, too, to all their evil deeds were in the dark; And not a man in twenty score knew how to make his mark. Oh the fine old English Tory times;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You sang: Me an' muh baby gonna shine, shine... Me an' muh baby gonna shine. The strong men keep a-comin' on The strong men git stronger . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lord, when the wise men came from far, Led to thy cradle by a star,... Then did the shepherds too rejoice, Instructed by thy angel's voice. Blest were the wise men in their skill, And shepherds in their harmless will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away... the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.... Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On", has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students 'to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to re...nder.' Dean Greenough organized an 'emergency committee,' and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, 'To hell with football if men are needed.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a novel addressed by a man to men and women of full age; which attempts to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision... and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity; to tell, without a mincing of words, of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit; and to point the tragedy of unfulfilled aims, I am not aware that there is anything in the handling to which exception can be taken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episod...e and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »