Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-10-06 Oct 4, 2019The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.~ Max LernerIt is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time...~ Abraham LincolnTo your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 3, 2019Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. WedgwoodWhen any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it.~ State v. SuttonCongress may not abdicate or transfer to others its legitimate functions.~ U.S. Supreme Court Oct 2, 2019[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.~ James MadisonFrom the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.~ Carl SchurzIt's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.~ W. Somerset Maugham Oct 1, 2019The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynO, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!~ Sir Walter ScottIt is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.~ Thomas Paine Sep 30, 2019Fraud may consist as well in the suppression of what is true as in the representation of what is false. If a man professing to answer a question, select those facts only which are likely to give a credit to the person of whom he speaks, and keep back the rest, he is a more artful knave than he who tells a direct falsehood.~ Justice HeathAt the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisCongress is continually appointing fact-finding committees, when what we really need are some fact-facing committees.~ Roger Allen Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print