Who said “The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people.…”?

“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”

“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”

“The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.”

“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.”

“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.”

“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”

“Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.”

“Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.”

“To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.”

“It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.”