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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.

All I know is what I read in the papers.

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.

In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

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

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.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.