{"quotes":[{"text":"The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the platform, the sheet lightning of the daily press, the entire literature, the political names and the intellectual reputations, the civil law and penal code, the liberté, égalité, fraternité and the second of May 1852—all have vanished like a phantasmagoria before the spell of a man whom even his enemies do not make out to be a magician. Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for a moment, in order that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: Everything that exists has this much worth, that it will perish.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["itarian","itarianism","bourgeois","brumaire","cipolla","constitution","coup-d-etat","dictator","dictatorship","dynasty","fascism","france","french-republic","louis-bonaparte","magician","mario-and-the-magician","monarchy","mountebank","napoleon","press","republicans","revolution","socialism","spell","suffrage","third-republic"],"id":8439,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["authenticity","books","cheapness","classics","mass-culture","mass-media","press","translations","writing"],"id":15299,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - like the White House press office - who can make their arguments most loudly, most frequently, most obstinately, and with the best backdrop.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["argument","barack-obama","compromise","media","news","opinion","opinions","politics","press","united-states","white-house"],"id":15416,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press  and that cannot be limited without being lost.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["press"],"id":39812,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["amendment","exists","first","free","freedon","judge","legal","partially","press","public","record","recorded","removed","right","rights","sidewalk","speech","usa","video"],"id":41670,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.","author":"Thomas Griffith","tags":["now","press","which "],"id":56164,"author_id":"Thomas+Griffith"},{"text":"I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.","author":"Stan Goff","tags":["cnn","iraq-war","media","pentagon","press","war-propaganda"],"id":62905,"author_id":"Stan+Goff"},{"text":"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.","author":"Christiane Amanpour","tags":["power","press","undermine "],"id":71692,"author_id":"Christiane+Amanpour"},{"text":"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["journalism","press"],"id":73027,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.","author":"George Mason","tags":["press"],"id":73154,"author_id":"George+Mason"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}