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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. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)

The educators of the common people. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)

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

Turn to the press--its teeming sheets survey, Big with he wonders of each passing day; Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires and wrecks, Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken necks. (Quote by - Charles Sprague)

Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage. (Quote by - Will Stanton)

Everything known before it happens; and headlines twice the size of the events. (Quote by - John Galsworthy)

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace. (Quote by - Grete Waitz)

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. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news. (Quote by - Tabitha Soren)

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. (Quote by - Spiro T. Agnew)

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. (Quote by - Thomas Hartwell Horne)

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. (Quote by - Robert Redford)

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. (Quote by - Don Marquis)

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel. (Quote by - Lane Kirkland)

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. (Quote by - Ben Hecht)

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

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security. (Quote by - Agnetha Faltskog)

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)

People are always dying in the Times who do t seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace. (Quote by - James Reston)

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions. (Quote by - Richard Le Gallienne)

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

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