Russell Baker

Quotes

• “An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very oft...”
• “The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit...”
• “Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rheto...”
• “Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and sma...”
• “Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”