The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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