"I don't think I can make any comment relative to the proposals of the French and German Governments for a security pact [the Locarno Agreements] for the guarantee of European peace."
"I don't know any way that America could cooperate in that."
"It seems to me that it is almost entirely a European political subject in which we can't take any very helpful part."
"NO, that is for every department to work out itself."
"I haven't any specific plan for the reduction of personnel in the clerical forces of the District of Columbia."
"NO. AS I say, it is a general suggestion of what has to be met and an effort that the heads of the departments have to be constantly engaged in, otherwise the departments will be loaded up with a grea..."
"Well, I want constant effort in that direction, a constant checking up by the department to see whether they have any more employees than is necessary to carry on the work of the department."
"It is with a good deal of difficulty that they are discharged."
"It has been observed that propaganda seeks to close the mind, while education seeks to open it."
"It has thrived on ignorance."
"The chief business of the American people is business."
"It is in this direction that the public press can lend its strongest support to our Government."
"It has always been realized, sometimes instinctively, oftentimes expressly, that truth and freedom are inseparable."
"The American newspapers serve a double purpose."
"Under a free government it must be the very reverse."
"The accumulation of wealth means the multiplication of schools, the increase of knowledge, the dissemination of intelligence, the encouragement of science, the broadening of outlook, the expansion of ..."
"Whoever disagrees with this judgment must take the chance of marking himself as ignorant of conditions which notoriously affected our public life, thoughts and methods, even within the memory of many ..."
"The news giving function of a newspaper cannot possibly require that it give a photographic presentation of everything that happens in the community."
