Famous quotes containing the words fort, worth and/or press:
“The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every womans worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
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