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It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Mean, Numbers, Political

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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Blow, Numbers, Long

Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

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It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.

Thomas Jefferson

Office, Abuse, Lines

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.463

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From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

Thomas Jefferson

Reading, Thinking, Years

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.514, Cosimo, Inc.

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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

Thomas Jefferson

Real, Lying, Facts

Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.92

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As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Abundance, Newspapers, True You

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.59

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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.

Thomas Jefferson

Lying, Ocean, Now And Then

Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Views, Independence, Elements

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That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk without wounding vitally the plant from which it is torn. However desirable those measures might be which might correct without enslaving the press, they have never yet been devised in America.

James Madison

America, Evil, Liberty

James Madison (1906). “The Writings of James Madison: 1790-1802”

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The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between those which are meant for use and reformation, and with an eye solely to the public good, and those which are intended merely to delude and defame. To the latter description, it is impossible that any good government should afford protection and impunity.

Thomas McKean

Eye, Men, Liberty

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The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.

Walter Lippmann

Moving, Men, Light

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I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way, in a homophobic way, in a misogynistic way, and the press does not challenge them. And I'm going to be taking a very strong stance against that, and I am an artist who refuses to accept that behavior.

Lady Gaga

Running, Strong, Artist

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Death, Waiting

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I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.

Merle Haggard

Writing, Kids, Important

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The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

Charles Lindbergh

Country, Lying, Government

Speech in Des Moines, Iowa, September 11, 1941.

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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

H. G. Wells

Struggle, Sweat, Verbs

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Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Adolf Hitler

Tone, Mein Kampf, Tradition

Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

Robert Breault

Memories, Children, Childhood

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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

Albert Einstein

Education, Book, Teaching

Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.43, Open Road Media

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The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Albert Einstein

Public Opinion, Influence, Interest

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.6, Broadway Books

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In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in particular, in the '20s really believed that to be a success, an entrepreneur needed to have a personality, a sense that you were a success. That's why I think Capone dressed the way he did. And that's why he entertained the press — because he wanted to be perceived as a successful American. Dale Carnegie ... would later cite Capone as a model for creating the public image. Obviously, it went bad in many ways for Capone, but that's the image he was going for.

Jonathan Eig

Successful, Thinking, Creating

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I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales.

Cindy Sherman

Guy, Painter, Amount

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All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

Emilia Clarke

Scary, Acting, Stuff

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As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

Jami Gertz

Mom, People, Important

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I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!

Eva Longoria

Pushing

"Eva Longoria Dating Ernesto Arguello" by Monica Rizzo, people.com. July 4, 2013.

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