William Thomas Stead Quotes

• It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

  William Thomas Stead

  Community, Individual, Effects

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• The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

  William Thomas Stead

  Duty, Journalist

  1886 'Government by Journalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist on Journalism (1892).

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• An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

  William Thomas Stead

  Kings, Editors, Democracy

  1886 'Government by Journalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist on Journalism (1892).

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• It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

  William Thomas Stead

  Sleep, Eye, People

  1886 Of a newspaper. 'Government by Journalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist on Journalism (1892).

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• What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

  William Thomas Stead

  Messages, Trouble

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