Best Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

#1. They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.

Joseph Pulitzer

#2. Your books are so easy to read; I could not put them down

Chris Davies Curtis

#3. The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908

J.M. Carlisle

#4. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Joseph Pulitzer

#5. My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

Joseph Pulitzer

#6. 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.

Joseph Pulitzer

#7. I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

Joseph Pulitzer

#8. 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.

Joseph Pulitzer

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

Joseph Pulitzer

#10. For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

William Barclay

#11. I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

Joseph Pulitzer

#12. Newspapers should have no friends.

Joseph Pulitzer

#13. Where to next?" Aidan asked.
"Down," Lucy replied. He immediately sat.She giggled,ignoring Del's over-the-top eye-rolling.

Jo Treggiari

#14. I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

Edward Hirsch

#15. He was looking backwards, and that was an entirely different thing. Looking backwards was
important, even when you were standing still. He had to see what was there. There was something
back there, and even if everybody else didn't see it, he had to.

Aelius Blythe

#16. 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.

Joseph Pulitzer

#17. What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

Joseph Pulitzer

#18. 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.

Joseph Pulitzer

#19. A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way they ought to be.

Joseph Pulitzer

#20. 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 that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

Joseph Pulitzer

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

Joseph Pulitzer