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Napoleon on Journalism

1769–1821 France

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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than an hundred thousand bayonets.

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