"Freedom of press is limited to those..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.”

“The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.”

“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.”

“But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.”

“We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.”

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.”

“As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.”

“I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.”

“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”