More From A. J. Liebling
- "The pattern of a newspaperman’s life is like the plot of ‘Black Beauty.’ Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings."
- "The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
- "Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas – stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows."
More In Freedom
- "But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago."― John McCain
- "You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."― Abbie Hoffman
- "Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."― Germaine Greer