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The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they're more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative.

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Charles XII of Sweden

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

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This shall hence become my music.

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His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

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