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• The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,… — Milton Friedman
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• An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer
• Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more… — William Howard Taft
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• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act… — George Stephanopoulos
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• I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount… — Ronald Reagan
• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer
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