Bill Moyers Short Quotes

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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

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People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government.

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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.

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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

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[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

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No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism.

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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

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One of my mentors told me that news is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity.

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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

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What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

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Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

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