• It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

    William Thomas Stead: It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.
    1886 Of a newspaper. 'Government by Journalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist on Journalism (1892).