They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish … - Howard K. Smith

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Howard K. Smith

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

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You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse.

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For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

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Rush Limbaugh

Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.

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Joel Kinnaman

Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U. S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

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Adam Clarke

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

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Walter Benjamin