History of American Journalism Quotes
They Said It
| "If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington37 |
| "The very basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and 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, 178738 |
| "The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body." - Investor Warren Buffett39 |
| "The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic—just one of those unfortunate things." - G. Gordon Liddy, conservative commentator and convicted mastermind of the 1972 Watergate burglary, 198640 |
| "Print is dead." - Dr. Egon Spengler, in Ghostbusters, 198441 |