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" Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers. "

Walter Cronkite

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" There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. "

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" I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong. "

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" The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. "

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" It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role. "

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" We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons. "

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" I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake. "

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