Newspapers should have no friends.

- Joseph Pulitzer

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good lit…

- Joseph Pulitzer

I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any part…

- Joseph Pulitzer

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, accuratel…

- Joseph Pulitzer

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

- Joseph Pulitzer

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

- Joseph Pulitzer

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

- Joseph Pulitzer

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 th…

- Joseph Pulitzer

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

- Joseph Pulitzer