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"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."
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"We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won't be Joan's [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes-so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children."
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"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."
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"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."
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"By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"
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"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."
War
"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
War
"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
Nation
"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
People
"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
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"We had the best food any battlefield ever had."
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"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
Being
"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
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