Quotes by Joseph Pulitzer - Page 1

Newspapers should have no friends.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Friendship
No Friends
Should Have
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I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Committees
Select
Want
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Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.
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Fall
Republic
Together
Rise
Press
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Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.
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Fall
Freedom Of Speech
Together
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Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.
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Promise
Cheap
Exuberant
Performance
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Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!
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Principles
Convictions
Motives
Neither
Nor
Sold
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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
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Cynical
Mercenary
Produce
Will
Time People Will
Base
Itself
Press
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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
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Cynical
Media Control
People
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Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
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Force
Moral
Public Life
Public Speaking
Publicity
Factor
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My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Men
Believe
Self
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I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make.
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Amount
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Noise
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The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
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Future
Generations
Hands
Mould
Republic
Future Generations
Journalists
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If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.
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Faculty
Human Mind
Memory
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A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Newspapers
Purpose
Way
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There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
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Dodge
Doe
Vices
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It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Abraham
Franklin
Greatness
Nation
Jackson
Jefferson
Owe
Lincoln
Lowly
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It only serves to show what sort of person a man must be who can't even get testimonials. No, no; if a man brings references, it proves nothing; but if he can't, it proves a great deal.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Testimonial
Great Man Must
Brings
Deal
Great Deal
Proves
References
Serve
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Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Appreciation
Inspirational
Smile
Business
Communication
Appreciate
Light
Remember
Above
Accurately
Before
Them
Clearly
Read
Guided
Put
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I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Men
Character
Intellectual
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I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Acquire
Engaged
Moral
Profession
Training
Assist
Attracting
Young Men
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Courage
Smile
Government
Able
Virtue
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Courage
Disinterested
Mockery
Virtue
Popular
Preserve
Sham
Trained
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What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.
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Clever
Needs
Style
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What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Humor
Accuracy
Clever
Headlines
Needs
News
Originality
Satire
Style
Descriptive
Editorial
Literary
Newspaper
Page
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I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.
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Hard Work
Intense
Lines
Polish
Revision
Ten
Weighing
Work Hard Work Thinking
Work Thinking Day
Article
Concentrated
Represent
Readily
Twenty
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I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people
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Mind
People
Progress
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I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
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Elevation
Importance
Influence
Journalism
Noble
Profession
Interested
Deeply
Minds
Morals
Regarding
Spent
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We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
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Democracy
Feet
Individual
Matter
Social
Conduct
Public
Informed
Municipal
National
Only One Way
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The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.
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Sympathy
Conscience
Convince
Indignation
Picturesque
American People
Arouse
Awaken
Enlist
Forcible
Stimulate
Striking
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They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.
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Father
Trying
Years
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I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Columns
Paper
Reputation
Wealth
Power Great Man
Million
Million People
My Friend
Speaks
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Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.
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Power
Women
Money
Country
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If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Independence
Advertising
Circulation
News
Money Service People
Comments
Number
Largest
Newspaper
Reach
Second
Service
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I breakfast when I get up, lunch when I get the chance. If I never get it, I forget it. Sometimes I dine at seven, sometimes at midnight, sometimes not at all; and I never get to bed until four or five in the morning. Everything depends on the news; the hours make no difference to me.
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Breakfast
Depends
Dine
Lunch
Midnight
No Difference
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We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Government
Danger
Demoralizing
Liberty
Owing
Poverty
Prosperity
Retention
Wealth
Power Great Wealth
Power Great Government
Power Government Great
Washington
Expense
Influences
Let Us
Millionaires
Rather
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Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which I first consulted the oculist up to the present time, about twenty-four years, I have only been three times in 'The World' building. Most people think I'm dead or living in Europe in complete retirement.
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Europe
Present Time
Retirement
Separation
Three
Time World Day
Time Eyes World
Dead
Complete
Developed
Eyes
Present
Twenty-Four
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Don't be sensitive if I should, in future, seem brusque, harsh, or even unjust in my criticism. I sincerely hope I never shall be; but if I should, remember that fault-finding is perhaps both my privilege and my weakness, that correction is the only road to improvement, and that my quick temper and illness are entitled to some consideration.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Consideration
Criticism
Entitled
Harsh
Illness
Improvement
Privilege
Sensitive
Sincerely
Temper
Unjust
Weakness
Correction
Perhaps
Quick
Seem
Shall
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The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no causes bit its conclusions; will not support the Administration, but criticize it; will oppose all frauds and shams wherever or whatever they are; will advocate principles and ideas rather than prejudices and partisanship.
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Ideas
Party
People
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What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Accuracy
Ashamed
Connected
Dozen
Half
News
Paper
States
Virtue
False
Newspaper
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There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic-dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of the purse potentates-devoted more to the news of the New than the Old World-that will expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses-that will sever and battle for the people with earnest sincerity.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Cities
Fighting
People
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A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.
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Bridges
Fog
Thinking
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I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.
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Wisdom
Independent
Party
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Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Government
Fall
Hands
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We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Democracy
Feet
Vices
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Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Opportunity
Hard Work
Independent
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