It is a seldom proffered ...

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.
 Walter Cronkite

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
 Walter Cronkite
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
 Walter Cronkite
I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
 Walter Cronkite
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
 Walter Cronkite
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.
 Walter Cronkite