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> [No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/no-one-can-deny-that-much-of-our-modern-advertising-is-essentially/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

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## More by Carl L. Becker

> [The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/the-value-of-history-is-indeed-not-scientific-but-moral-by/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/the-logic-of-all-this-seems-to-be-that-it-is-all-right-for-young/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/corporations-have-at-different-times-been-so-far-unable-to/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [History is the memory of things said and done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/history-is-the-memory-of-things-said-and-done/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/history-is-an-indispensable-even-though-not-the-highest-form-of/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/no-one-can-deny-that-much-of-our-modern-advertising-is-essentially/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/to-ask-whether-the-natural-rights-philosophy-of-the-declaration-of/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/all-historians-even-the-most-scientific-have-bias-if-in-no-other/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/no-class-of-americans-so-far-as-i-know-has-ever-objected-to-any/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/virginia-was-in-fact-a-landowning-aristocracy-without-nobility-or/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

> [The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/the-significance-of-man-is-that-he-is-insignificant-and-is-aware-of-it/)

[Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/)

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