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. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best,… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
