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We can't let censorship take over.
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Censorship
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The American public has a right to know what's going on.
Elmer Davis / Author
American Public
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The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.
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Great
Scare
Commandment
First
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Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.
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Slavery
Hall
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This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
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Republic
Will
Established
Cowards
Preserve
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You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.
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Loss
Mr
Roosevelt
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This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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Brave
Free
Remain
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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Courage
Smile
Veterans Day
Home
Brave
Country
Land
Long
Memories
Will
Free
Only
Nation
Remain
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When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
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Half
Literal
Middle Aged
Weariness
Dead
Middle-Aged Man
Says
Telling
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Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
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Communications
Enemies
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The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.
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Despair
Dozen
Following
Publicity
Agencies
News Business
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We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.
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Winning
American People
Lose
Toward
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The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.
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Entertainment
Propaganda
Theme
Picture
Easiest
Easiest Way
Realize
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Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles.
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Elements
Moral Principles
Principles
Contaminated
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One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
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Authority
Expected
Sun
Field
One Of The Things
Subject
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This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.
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Annoyed
Defeat
Given
Whole
Wrath
Neutral
Belligerent
Nation
Furnish
Lesson
Object
Opponent
Outlet
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It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War.
Elmer Davis / Author
War
America
Asia
Becoming
Related
Russia
Single
South America
Great World America
War Great World
Directly
Parts
World War
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It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.
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Editor
Held
Newspaper
Unable
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New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended 'The Times' almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together.
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Extraordinary
Injury
Prosperity
Rivals
Attended
Outset
Thereafter
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This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
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Truth
Dedicated
Disagree
Honest
Liberty
Majority
May
Among
Nation
Conceived
Distinguish
Error
Honest Men
Principle
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There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.
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Appeasement
Demand
Department
Hull
President
Secretary
Ten
Time Experience Men
Anywhere
Group
Increasing
Rid
State Department
Ten Years
Worked
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The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.
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Advertising
Aggressive
Degrading
Excluded
Existence
Immoral
Ostentatious
Police
Purity
Reports
Characteristic
Chief
Notices
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There are some patriotic citizens who sincerely hope that America will win the war - but they also hope that Russia will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that England will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that Roosevelt will lose it.
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Patriotic
Russia
Sincerely
Roosevelt
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I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription.
Elmer Davis / Author
Conscription
Europe
Groups
Navy
November
Party
Percent
Population
Presidential
Promise
States
Taken
United States
Vote
Voting
Neutral
Candidate
Countries
Entire
Small
Personally
Tour
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