“The President of a great democracy such as ours, and the editors of great newspapers such as yours, owe a common obligation to the people: an obligation to present the facts, to present them with candor, and to present them in perspective.”
1961, Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
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“Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.”
Source: Twelve Angry Men
as quoted by John Freely, Before Gaileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012)
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The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
Preface to The Great Crusade (1940) by Gustav Regler
“Between them these two books sum up our present predicament.”
Review of The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek and The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus, reviewed in The Observer (9 April 1944).
Context: Between them these two books sum up our present predicament. Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war. Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship, and war. There is no way out of this unless a planned economy can somehow be combined with the freedom of the intellect, which can only happen if the concept of right and wrong is restored to politics.
“The Great British Public; a nation of Blue Peter presenters.”
Liner notes to Christie Malry's Own Double Entry OST, 2001