functionary quotes

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.

-Stead,WilliamThomas
  Of a newspaper.'Government byJournalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist on Journalism (1892).

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