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We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. ... It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.
— Fisher Ames
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
— Samuel Clemens
Never forget that if you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
— Arthur Brisbane
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
— Winston Churchill
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood
— Daniel Burnham
Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news.
— Brian McNeil
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
— Eric A. Blair
News agencies aren't supposed to create facts, they are supposed to report them.
— Jason Safoutin
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.
— Harry G. Frankfurt
Omit needless words.
— William Strunk, Jr.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead (attributed)
Reporters were supposed to tell what happened; scholars explained what had happened.
— Theodore H. White
When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.
— Anonymous