"Men with the muckrake are often indispensable..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.”

“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”

“I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.”

“Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.”

“Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.”

“A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There are dozens of these parties, sponsored by large corporations with a sincere public-spirited desire to become larger.”

“Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.”

“I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.”

“Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.”