Quotes by A. Liebling

• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
• The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
• If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
• The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
• Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
• I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.