Report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied. [ William Shakespeare ]

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. [ Pope ]

He's gone, and who knows how he may report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? [ Milton ]

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. [ Cowper ]

The press is the fourth estate of the realm. [ Carlyle ]

A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,
A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,
Condemned to drudge, the meanest of the mean,
And furbish falsehoods for a magazine. [ Byron ]

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost.
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost.
Star-eyed intelligence? [ Mary Clemmer ]

To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
Written in- water, swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
A work too great for fame. [ Mary Clemmer ]

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander. [ G. W. Curtis ]

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. [ Joseph Story ]

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. [ Samuel Bowles ]

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books. [ Theodore Tilton ]

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. [ Charles Lamb ]

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. [ Bryant ]

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. [ Horace Greeley ]

They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. [ Addison ]

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. [ De La Bruyere ]

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. [ Napoleon I ]

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light - instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremeties of the earth. [ Lamartine ]