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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.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: America Anything Authority Done Every Everybody Expected Field His One Of The Things Own Subject Sun Things Who Wrong

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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.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: Able Among Conceived Dedicated Disagree Distinguish Error Honest Honestly Liberty Majority May Men Nation Others People Principle Say Think Truth Will

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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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Topics: Dead Half He Literal Man Middle-Aged Moment Says Telling Truth Weariness

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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.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: Advertising Aggressive Any Characteristic Chief Degrading Even Excluded Existence First Immoral News Notices Ostentatious Police Purity Reports Theater Were Whether

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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.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: Almost Any Attended Brought Extraordinary Fast Grew Growing Important Injury New New York Outset Prosperity Real Rivals Thereafter Times Together Which Years York

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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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Topics: American American People End Going Happen Know Lose People Toward Truth Use War Winning Would

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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

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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.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: After Any Anywhere Appeasement Demand Department Experience Get Group Increasing Learned Men Never President Rid Secretary State State Department Ten Ten Years Time Who Worked Years

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You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.

~Elmer Davis

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The American public has a right to know what's going on.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: American American Public Going Know Public Right

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: January 13th, 1890

Died: May 18th, 1958

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