I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.
William Randolph HearstMost criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
William Randolph HearstPutting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.
William Randolph HearstWe must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.
William Randolph Hearst