Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A. J. Liebling · Do You Belong in Journalism?, The New Yorker (May 14, 1960)

The way to write is well, and how is your own business. Nothing else on the subject makes sense.

A. J. Liebling · The Jollity Building (1962)

I can write faster than anybody who can write better, and I can write better than anybody who can write faster.

Attributed to A. J. Liebling · Attributed

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

A. J. Liebling · The source reads: “The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. Each day brings only two opportunities for field work, and they are not to be wasted minimizing the intake of cholesterol.” · Between Meals (1962), A Good Appetite

Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples, or of Parliamentary democracy, or of France, or of the many surviving liberal States of Europe.” · Broadcast, London, 16 October 1938

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Edward R. Murrow · See It Now, report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (March 7, 1954)

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

“The way to write is well, and how is your own business. Nothing else on the subject makes sense.”

“I can write faster than anybody who can write better, and I can write better than anybody who can write faster.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

“Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.”

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”

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