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Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
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Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.
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Newspapers should have no friends.
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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.
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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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I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.
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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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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
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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.
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My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.