James Gordon Bennett Sr.

“A newspaper can be a great thing, but a newspaper with a mission is a menace.”

“The moral organ of the press is the pocket.”

“I renounce all so-called principles.”

“My only guide is my own sense of what is right and proper.”

“We shall endeavor to record facts on every public and proper subject, stripped of prejudice and passion.”

“The press is the living jury of the nation.”

“What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life?”

“I have got a mortgage on the press, and the press is the mortgage of the world.”

“I mean to be a neutral, independent, and fearless editor.”

“I have no friends to reward, no enemies to punish.”