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Thomas Carlyle on Journalism

1795–1881 Scotland

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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.

Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Carlyle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.