Heywood Broun
Heywood Broun
Heywood Campbell Broun, Jr.was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and his championing of the underdog. He believed that journalists could help right wrongs, especially social ills...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth7 December 1888
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
In some respects the life of a censor is more exhilarating that of an emperor. The best the emperor can do is to snip off the heads of men and women, who are mere mortals. The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have lived forever.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
The average child is an almost non-existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality
Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.