46 Quotes by Joseph Pulitzer

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.

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to 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.

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee." ~ Joseph Pulitzer"My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men." ~ Joseph Pulitzer"Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life." ~ Joseph Pulitzer"Our republic and its press will rise and fall together." ~ Joseph Pulitzer"Newspapers should have no friends." ~ Joseph Pulitzer

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

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 in time produce a people as base as itself.

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.

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

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.