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All decent, reasonable men are horrified by the idea that the government might control the press.
None of them seem concerned at all that the press might control the government.

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The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

Of course I am not worried about intimating men. The type of man who will be intimidated is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

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Very few men advocate government control over themselves. But they constantly believe that others must be controlled by some outside force.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Real People Don’t Care.

The concern of a democracy is that no honest man shall feel uncomfortable, I don’t care who he is, or how nutty he is.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

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It is impossible to resent the press. I am no longer involved in politics. Some do not believe this, but it is true.

If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.

I am not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a person, whose loyalty is not to the Government of the United States, holding a Government job. They are entirely different things. I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that.

Most people will not question the rationalizations offered by their government for starting or continuing a war.

The right-of-reply issue has nothing to do with fearing media nor with the 2010 elections. Rather, it has everything to do with imposing unnecessary restraints on media.

As long as men learn to live respectfully with their partners, they have nothing to fear from the law.

Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

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