[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.
Franklin D. RooseveltFreedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.
Franklin D. RooseveltBetter the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Franklin D. Roosevelt