Best 28 quotes of William Randolph Hearst on MyQuotes

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

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.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

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.

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.

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

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.

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

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.

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.

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.

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

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.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

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.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

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.

You can crush a man with journalism.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.