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1 " Toleration is good for all or it is good for none. "
― Daniel Stashower , The Dime Museum Murders
2 " What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their day-the theaters have had their day-the temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great heaven , and save more from Hell, than all the churches and chapels in New York-besides making money at the same time" "Shakespeare is the great genius of the drama, Scott of the novel, Milton and Byron of the poem, and I mean to be the genius of the newspaper press." James Gordon Bennett, editor ot he New York Herald in 1841 "
― Daniel Stashower , The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
3 " The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841 "
4 " I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves"— Edgar Allan Poe "
5 " fearful. Send no more troops here. We will endeavor to prevent "
― Daniel Stashower , The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
6 " What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world.""You don't say.""Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non. "
― Daniel Stashower
7 " What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world.""You don't say.""Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for none. "