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Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Arthur Hays Sulzberger Books

Newspaper publisher

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was a significant newspaper publisher who served as the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 until his death in 1968. He was known for his efforts to maintain the newspaper's editorial independence and his commitment to high journalistic standards.

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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.’”

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“Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.”

Reader Responsible Newspapers

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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.”

War States Security Method Surrender

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

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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.”

“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.”

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

Knows Men Trouble Married Coalitions Married Man

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“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.”

World Giving Looks Seems Values Nations Greater Movement Giving Up Jew Seeking Warrior Homeland Zionist Peacemaker

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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.”

Different Desire Nations Economy Achieve Pride Amount Objectives Agreement Stubborn

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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.”

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

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

States United United States British Eyebrows

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

Looks Nations Movement Warrior Peacemaker

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

Nations Mistake Weakness

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“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.”

Should Mean Stills Nations Affair Internals Interfere Statesmen Internal Affairs

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“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.”

Thinking Important Used Iran Turkeys Ottawa

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

Way Care Cat Take Care Newspapers Journalist Jumping

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“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.”

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About the Author

Born: September 12, 1891
Died: December 11, 1968
Known for: Newspaper publisher
Quotes: 18

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