William Randolph Hearst Quotes

• You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

  William Randolph Hearst

  War, Media, Spanish American War

  1898 Telegram to the artist Frederic Remington at the beginning of the Spanish - American War in Cuba, Mar. This may be apocryphal, but it inspired a famous line of dialogue in Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.

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• You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Mind, Obstacles, Objectives

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• News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

  William Randolph Hearst

  People, News, Want

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• Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "The Plain Dealer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Newspaper, October 24, 1932.

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• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Interesting, Fiction, Stranger

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• When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Democracies Have, Hands, Democracy

  "In the News", June 13, 1941.

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• You can crush a man with journalism.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Crush, Men, Journalism

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• Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Mistake, Might, Reader

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• I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Men, Thinking, Race

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• We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Revolution, Originals, Enterprising

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• My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Running, Men, Office

  William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”

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• Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Girl, Dark, Promotion

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• If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Doors, Numbers, Want

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• Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Criminals, Citizens, Neglect

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• Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Country, Marijuana, Drug

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• A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Jobs, Freedom, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Boys, Play, Dull

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• It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Good Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Important, Distribution Of Wealth, Creation

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• We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Exercise, People, Personality

  Platform, Independent League; "New York Journal-American", February 1, 1924.

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• I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Children, War, Drinking

  William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”

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• We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Expression, Speech, Censorship

  Platform, Independent League; "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, February 1, 1924.

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• Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Society, Tranquil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Brother, Answers, Keepers

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• In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Christmas, Money, Size

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