For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
From Arthur Hays Sulzberger
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
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