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
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… — 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
