Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
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Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
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The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.
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In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
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If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
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This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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