William Randolph Hearst Professions : Publisher Born : April 29, 1863 Died : August 14, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 31 quotes by William Randolph Hearst You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle. William Randolph Hearst obstacles objectives mind You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. William Randolph Hearst spanish-american-war media war Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster. William Randolph Hearst men country thinking News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads. William Randolph Hearst news want people You can crush a man with journalism. William Randolph Hearst crush journalism men Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. William Randolph Hearst reader mistake might When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand. William Randolph Hearst democracies-have democracy hands We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution. William Randolph Hearst enterprising originals revolution Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. William Randolph Hearst stranger fiction interesting I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion. William Randolph Hearst race men thinking Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective. William Randolph Hearst promotion girl dark Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug. William Randolph Hearst marijuana drug country If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway. William Randolph Hearst want doors numbers My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them. William Randolph Hearst office running men A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. William Randolph Hearst patriotic freedom jobs Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen. William Randolph Hearst neglect criminals citizens All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass. William Randolph Hearst play boys dull It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here. William Randolph Hearst good-things We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right. William Randolph Hearst personality exercise people I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children. William Randolph Hearst drinking war children Similar Authors Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger publisher Andrew Breitbart publisher Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. publisher Al Goldstein publisher All Authors
