Newspapers Quotes

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Moment, Whether

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Educated, Reads

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho Marx

America, Read, Started

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Will Rogers

Times, Read, Town

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman

Best, Genius, United

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Else, Nation, Against

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

Four, Thousand, Feared

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles Spurgeon

Nothing, Wish, Put

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal

Hope, Same, Vote

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Another, Seen

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky

Time, Government, May

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Henry Miller

Another, Talk, Facts

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer

History, Second, Hand

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Battle, Understand, Military

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling

Read, News, Confuse

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
Maynard James Keenan

Education, Knowledge, Kids

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace

Truth, American, Fact

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Challenge, Army, Critics

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.
Fuzzy Zoeller

Good, Tomorrow, Job

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb

Feeling, Down, Curiosity

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
Richard M. Nixon

Bad, Read, Newspaper

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
Annie Lennox

Women, Understand, Why

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher Hitchens

Fool, Enough, Read

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan

Read, Fiction, Continuous

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
George Harrison

Yourself, Find, Open

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
Knut Hamsun

Art, Here, Makes

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Elayne Boosler

Funny, Truth, Through

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Spiro T. Agnew

Bird, Line, Fit

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
Calvin Klein

Half, Parties, Bothers

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.
Sienna Miller

Life, Positive, Legal

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