Joseph Pulitzer Quotations

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

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.

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

There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic-dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of the purse potentates-devoted more to the news of the New than the Old World-that will expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses-that will sever and battle for the people with earnest sincerity.

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.

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

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

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

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

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