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" Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against. "
Fighting
Enemies
Our
" I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription. "
Believe
Vote
Big
" It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons. "
Mind
View
Curious
" It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War. "
Great
World
Single
" Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles. "
Fight
Struggle
Victory
" New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended 'The Times' almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together. "
Growing
Together
New York
" One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun. "
Done
Authority
Own
" Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side. "
Side
Found
Hall
" The American public has a right to know what's going on. "
Know
Going
American
" The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded. "
Police
News
Existence
" The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized. "
Go
Theme
Realize
" The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you. "
First
Them
You
" There are some patriotic citizens who sincerely hope that America will win the war - but they also hope that Russia will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that England will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that Roosevelt will lose it. "
War
America
Hope
" There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time. "
Time
Who
Experience
" The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines. "
Situation
Government
Business
" This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can. "
Know
Win
War
" This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent. "
Defeat
World
Lesson
" This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. "
Men
Say
Truth
" This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. "
Patriotism
Brave
Long
" This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. "
Republic
Preserve
Cowards
" This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. "
Free
Long
Will
" We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it. "
Truth
War
American
" We can't let censorship take over. "
Censorship
Over
Take
" When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. "
Moment
Man
Half
" You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him. "
Like
Him
Loss
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