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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."

"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."

"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
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"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."

"In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned."

"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."

"Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart."

"Patriotism is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment."

"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."
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