“It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.” MadeUseDesirePurposeNationsNaturalInfluencePolicyResponsibleInstrumentsMutualDependence Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.” ThinkingValuesInterestingFundamentalsBoredLiberal Education Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.” SpiritTermWorstConceptsAssumingStrangerGenerosityInnocenceCommonplacePresumptionGenerosity Of SpiritPresumption Of Innocence Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.” Can DoInterestingQuietPaperSignificantQuiet Life Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.” ChallengesGreaterExpectationsSatisfaction Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.” IfsMeanEndsUseGenerationsCapacityCalmAdmirationAeroplanesCoolnessGeneration GapStay Calm Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.” MenFeelsImpactEmptinessWrestlingFullnessLives Of Others Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.” IfsConsciousRefugeAmbiguity Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.” ProfessionHallmarkJargon Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.” ViolenceCriminalsReliefLastingTemporaryHopelessnessCriminal MindMind OpeningBest Criminal MindsUsed In Criminal MindsTemporary Relief Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.” HardSeaInformationSkillsJudgmentIntellectualShoreFactual Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.” ThinkingSometimesObjectsPaperFunctionAmbassadorsBriefing Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.” ReadingReaderFitProgramNewspapersListenersBroadcasters Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.” HomeHandsWrittenReaderFasterCantConvenienceWritten WordSpoken Word Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.” KnowsSufferingCreativeCorrelation Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.” IdeasHandsSeemsMediaMassCompetitionAncientEchoesFree MarketHollowMass Media Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.” SatisfyingRefugeeDescendantsCredentialsDissidentsElizabeth Ii Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.” ShouldRealityRiskHavensPleaseSafeAimUniversityExaminationRuthlessSafe HavenDispleasure Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
