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I Am Frightened By The Imbalance, The Constant Striving To Reach The Largest Possible Audience For Everything; By The Absence Of A Sustained Study Of The State Of The Nation.

If We Were To Do The Second Coming Of Christ In Color For A Full Hour, There Would Be A Considerable Number Of Stations Which Would Decline To Carry It On The Grounds That A Western Or A Quiz Show Would Be More Profitable.

We Must Not Confuse Dissent With Disloyalty. We Must Remember Always That Accusation Is Not Proof And That Conviction Depends Upon Evidence And Due Process Of Law. We Will Not Walk In Fear, One Of Another. We Will Not Be Driven By Fear Into An Age Of Unreason, If We Dig Deep In Our History And Our Doctrine, And Remember That We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men – Not From Men Who Feared To Write, To Speak, To Associate, And To Defend Causes That Were, For The Moment, Unpopular.

I Was Greatly Influenced By One Of My Teachers. She Had A Zeal Not So Much For Perfection As For Steady Betterment-she Demanded Not Excellence So Much As Integrity.

It Is Well To Remember That Freedom Through The Press Is The Thing That Comes First. Most Of Us Probably Feel We Couldn't Be Free Without Newspapers, And That Is The Real Reason We Want The Newspapers To Be Free.