Quotes About The Fourth Estate

#1. News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowler

#2. Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

Edmund Burke

#5. The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#6. A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Carlyle

#8. None of our political writers ... take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons ... passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community ... the Mob.

Henry Fielding