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“Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.”

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Ben Bradlee

Ben Bradlee, born on August 26, 1921, was an esteemed American newspaper editor. Known for his sharp insight and unwavering commitment to press freedom, Bradlee had a distinguished career in journalism. He served as the editor of The Washington Post, where under his leadership, the newspaper played a crucial role in the 1972 Watergate scandal, leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. more

“Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?”

Source: An enemy hath done this

“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”

Firsts Objects Produce Integrity Understood Patterns Propaganda Convince Patriotic Uniforms Utterance Dissonance Unorthodox

Author:Alan Bullock

“I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Lost Liberty Blood Integrity Patriotic

Author:J. Reuben Clark

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