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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. ”
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. ”
It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time. ”
We must challenge this statement and this sentiment that the news media is the enemy of the American people. This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime. ”
When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then. ”
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. ”
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ”
It's always true, and in all the arts. When one guy's terrific, there will be a lot of other terrific guys around. And this last decade, the '90s, has been a period of very low talent. ”
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to. ”
Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him. ”