Souls dwell in printer's type. [ Joseph Ames ]
I'll print it, and shame the fools. [ Pope ]
Ink is the blood of the printing press. [ Milton ]
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam.
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give - though it might seem bold -
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold. [ Henry S. Leigh ]
The freedom of the press should be inviolate. [ J. Q. Adams ]
Printing, which is the preservative of all arts. [ Isaiah Thomas ]
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The press should be the voice of the people, not of party. [ James Ellis ]
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. [ Moore ]
By the device of printing, a Bible can be sold for sixty crowns. [ John Faust ]
I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon. [ Beaconsfield ]
The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument. [ Agnes Strickland ]
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Since the invention of printing no state can now any longer be formed purely, slowly, and by degrees from itself. [ Jean Paul ]
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white. [ Frederick Douglass ]
The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal. [ Chatfield ]
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? [ Goethe ]
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. [ Horace Mann ]
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. [ Addison ]
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. [ Wendell Phillips ]
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals, - so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs. [ Lowell ]
The press is not only free; it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. [ Beaconsfield ]
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. [ William Shakespeare ]
The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. [ Whipple ]
In former days various superstitious rites were used to exorcise evil spirits, but in our times the same object is attained, and beyond comparison more effectually, by the press; before this talisman, ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their kindred tribes are driven from the land, never to return again; the touch of holy water is not so intolerable to them as the smell of printing ink. [ J. Bentham ]