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William Randolph Hearst Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.”
— William Randolph Hearst, The Encarta Book of Quotations
Tagged: Politicians, Sly Foxes, Ulterior Motives
“I have no use for all-out liberals because I don' think they have an original thought.”
— William Randolph Hearst, JFK#1, 03/25/1971
Tagged: American Politics, Against Liberalism/Christianity
“Run a newspaper that is independent of everything except the interests of the public that you serve.”
— William Randolph Hearst, Letter from William Randolph Hearst to William Randolph Hearst, Jr. giving advice on newspaper circulation
Tagged: Independent Media
“It is not only fashionable to be sympathetic to Communism, but profitable too.”
— William Randolph Hearst, Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies
Tagged: Communism, American Politics, Media Dynamics, Politics and Media
“I’m afraid I’m like a dipsomaniac with a bottle. They keep sending me these catalogs and I can’t resist them.”
— William Randolph Hearst, Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies
Tagged: Spending Addiction, Shopping, Alcohol
“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, In The News
Tagged: Freedom of Speech, Expression As A Right
“We must not allow the Communists to get control of the machinery of government.”
— William Randolph Hearst, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Tagged: Communism, American Politics
“I do not write as a reactionary—good lord! I am not even a Conservative.”
— William Randolph Hearst, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Tagged: Politics
“The people of California do not have to try the smallpox in order to realize that they do not like it.”
— William Randolph Hearst, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Tagged: Don't Ned To Try It To Know You Don't Like It
“Don’t ask favors. Keep free from obligations of any kind.”
— William Randolph Hearst, Letter from William Randolph Hearst to William Randolph Hearst, Jr. giving advice on newspaper circulation
Tagged: favors, Do It All Yourself, One-Person Army
“You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.”
— William Randolph Hearst, Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies
Tagged: Media Manipulation, Framing Reality, Yellow Journalism
“The whole world turns to the left.”
— William Randolph Hearst, JFK#1, 03/25/1971
Tagged: American Politics
“We cannot cure murder by murder. ”
— William Randolph Hearst, Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies
Tagged: Eye for An Eye, Concepts of Justice
“Wealth is production. There may be prospective wealth, putative wealth, potential wealth, in the soil, in the ore veins, in various latent forms—but actual wealth is only that which has been produced into things men require. The more there is of production, therefore, the more there is of wealth.”
— William Randolph Hearst, The Washington Times from Washington, District of Columbia on April 5, 1921 · Page 20
Tagged: Wealth, Money, Economics, Labor
“It shows how faithful the American people are to the true spirit of Democracy and how safe American institutions are as long as the American Government is genuinely Democratic and rightfully mindful of the welfare of the plain people.”
— William Randolph Hearst, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Tagged: Politics, American Democracy, Populism
“Americans have blessed all civilization.”
— William Randolph Hearst, America First
Tagged: America First, American Patriotism, American Exceptionalism
“The Hearst papers believe in genuine democracy, the rule of the majority. They believe that America should be for Americans and that Americans should be for America. Those who do not approve of these policies would better not take these papers, because these are the policies which will be adhered to as long as they are published.”
— William Randolph Hearst
Tagged: Heart Papers
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