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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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"I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press."
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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."
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"The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama."
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"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."
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"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
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"Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me."
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"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
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"Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press."
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"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense."
Education
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
War
"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."
Power
"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
Government
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
Learning
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home
"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."
Government
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
Trust
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Government
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