"People, if given the choice between anarchy and……" — Eric Sevareid
"People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all."
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28 Quotes by Eric Sevareid
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
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The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of…
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house…
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No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand…
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The chief source of problems is solutions.
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You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
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For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
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Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
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There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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