Clergyman's

When the Morgan and Rockefeller interests harmonized to consummate the great wrong, they well understood that they could not achieve their purpose against a hostile press. Hence they ""took over"" the newspapers.
This does not necessarily mean the ownership of all newspapers. The perfection of the modern combination is little less than a Fine Art. Here again control is better than outright ownership. And control can be achieved through that community of interests, that interdependence of investment and credits which ties the publisher up to the banks, the advertisers, and special interests.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

The universal conviction of those who yet believe in the rights of the people is that the first step toward the prevention of war and the establishment of peace, permanent peace, is to give the people who must bear the brunt of war's awful burden more to say about it.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But, sir, the right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

The setting up of a new, invisible and all powerful government in this country, within the last twenty years, in open violation of fundamental and statutory law, could not have been accomplished under the steady fire of a free and independent press.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

The setting up of a new, invisible and all powerful government in this country, within the last twenty years, in open violation of fundamental and statutory law, could not have been accomplished under the steady fire of a free and independent press.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

To befool and mislead the people, to falsify public opinion, is to pervert and destroy a republican form of government.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Where public opinion is free and uncontrolled, wealth has a wholesome respect for the law.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Where public opinion is free and uncontrolled, wealth has a wholesome respect for the law.
- Robert M. La Follette Sr.