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. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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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.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

information decision men

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

married trouble men

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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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.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

responsible newspapers reader

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.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

this-generation generations negative

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

news shadow thinking

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

cat care jumping

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

turkeys iran thinking

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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