The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

Grey zones do not interest me at all.

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.