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If it printed only the truth, its value would be infinite; but who can say in what proportions of this vast volume of printed matter is the true and the false?
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Beck raises concerns about the truthfulness of printed information.
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Plato records a saying of Socrates that the dog is a true philosopher because philosophy is love of knowledge, and a dog, while growling at strangers, always welcomes the friends that he knows.
Other nations may not take it so literally, but with our life-long adherence to a written Constitution as a solemn contractual obligation, we do.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and just can repair.
The men who framed the Covenant of the League tried to do, under more difficult, but not dissimilar, conditions, what the framers of the American Constitution did in 1787.
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