William Randolph Hearst

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In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Money
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Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
- William Randolph Hearst
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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
- William Randolph Hearst
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You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Mind
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You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: War
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News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: People
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Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Country
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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
Collection: Democracies Have
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You can crush a man with journalism.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Crush
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I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Men
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We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Revolution
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My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Running
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Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Girl
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If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Doors
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Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Criminals
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Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Country
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All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Boys
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It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Good Things
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The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Important
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We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Exercise
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I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Children
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We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Expression
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Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Society
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If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Brother
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This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Unemployment
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If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Sea
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The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Important
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British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Law
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It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Practice
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Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!
- William Randolph Hearst
Collection: Rejoice