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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Written by A. J. Liebling
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Written by Will Rogers
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Written by Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Written by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
Written by Ben Hecht
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Written by Hugo Black
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
Written by Hugo Black
I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
Written by Jimmy Breslin
I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.
Written by Roy Thomson
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.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
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.
Written by Groucho Marx
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Written by Wendell Phillips
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Written by James D. Watson
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
Written by Agnetha Faltskog
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
Written by John Sweeney
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Written by Thomas W. Higginson
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Written by Anne Sullivan
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
Written by William Howard Taft
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Written by Gore Vidal
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
Written by Rose Macaulay
Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
Written by Luis Bunuel
I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.
Written by Max Aitken
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.
Written by Walt Whitman
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Written by Charles Lamb
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Written by Charles Spurgeon
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Written by Norman Mailer
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Written by Henry Miller

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