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"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
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"What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others."

"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down."

"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."

"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."

"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."

"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child."

"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."

"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
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