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Johnny Depp

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American actor, producer, and musician.

Quotes

 * I've also gotten weird letters, suicide letters, girls threatening to jump if I don't get in touch with them. So you think, "This is bullshit," but then you think, "What if it's not? Who wants to take that chance?" I write them back, tell them to hang in there, if things are that bad, they have to get better. But I'm not altogether stable myself, so who am I to give advice?
 * Quoted in Johanna Schneller, "Johnny Depp: Girls' Best Friend," Rolling Stone (December 1988)

 * When I was a kid back in Kentucky, we went to this church where my uncle preached. It was kind of a weird Baptist, full-on kind of place. People kept running up to the pulpit and grabbing his ankles and being saved. Lots of crying. Even then, at six or seven, I questioned how pure the emotion could be if it were on such display.
 * Quoted in Kevin Sessums, "Johnny Be Good," Vanity Fair (February 1997)

 * We're all a mishmash of extremes. I know that I have demons. I don't know if I want to get rid of them altogether, but I would like to experience them in a different way. Maybe go face to face with them. I've never really had the time to go to therapy. Well, here and there. But not enough to help me.
 * Quoted in Kevin Sessums, "Johnny Be Good," Vanity Fair (February 1997)

 * I despise those prick actors who say, "I was in character," and "I became the character," and all that stuff. It's hideous. It's just masturbation at the highest level.
 * Quoted in Chris Heath, "Johnny Depp's Savage Journey," Rolling Stone (1998-06-11)

 * I see kids who are complete cynics. They're not dreaming. They're out there with high-powered weapons, smoking crack behind the 7-Eleven. They've seen it all. These kids are going to take us into 2000 and beyond. That's scary, man. I wouldn't say I'm pessimistic or optimistic. I'm more realistic, I guess.  But not cynical. I look. I watch.
 * Quoted in Anthony Decurtis, "Rolling Stone 30th Anniversary Special: Johnny Depp," Rolling Stone (1998)

 * I'm not a Blockbuster boy, I never wanted to be. I just don't want to look back in 30 or 40 or 50 years and have my grandkids say, "You did a lot of stupid shit, Granddad. What an idiot you were, smiling for the cameras and playing the game."
 * Quoted in Sophie Cooper, "Johnny Be Good," Caribbean World (Spring 1999)

 * I had an incident with a really dumb magazine called Voici where they printed a photograph of Lily-Rose, a long-lens shot from very far away, and I just went ballistic. You can sue them — I've sued a couple of times, Vanessa's sued and we win every time — but this time I was beyond suing. I just wanted to beat whoever was responsible into the earth — I just wanted to rip him apart. So I tracked him down and gave him a few suggestions about how to live life and stay healthy and he took my advice. Because that's just unacceptable. They can do anything they want to me — and most tabloids have — but not my kid, not my pure, innocent little baby. She didn't ask to be in this circus.
 * Quoted in Jessamy Calkin, "Johnny Depp Esq.," Esquire [U.K. edition] (February 2000)

 * I'd like to think I was reborn May 27, 1999 [when his daughter Lily-Rose was born]. Everything changed once I held [her] in my arms, and those innocent eyes stared into mine. Until that moment, I had been possessed with 'me' and 'my career.' Suddenly, there was someone who depended on me, who I was responsible for.
 * Quoted in (October 19, 2001)

 * Lily-Rose is 2-1/2, and each day is a new discovery for her. I want to be there and live it with her. When she was 6 months old, I held a paint brush in her hand. By the time she was 1, I was guiding her hand to paint with acrylics. Also, I showed how to keep her brushes clean. Now, she's intrigued by pastels and going through her 'purple phase.' "She's developing from abstract into more figurative. [showing a fax of his daughter's latest effort: a picture of daddy] See the shape of my head, my hair, my shoulder? An exact likeness. If I had my wish, she'd be a painter. That's why I'm keeping her sketches, even this fax. Someday, if she becomes famous, I can take it to the bank.
 * Quoted in (October 19, 2001)

 * "Film star," "movie star" — whatever they want to try to call you is limiting, in the sense that I think an actor has to be able to play characters. To separate these things — you know: "leading man," "action hero," "character actor," stuff like that — I guess if I want to be close to anything, it would be a character actor, which is what I think an actor should be. So any of that "movie star" stuff, I just don't buy it. It just doesn't make sense to me.
 * Quoted in "'Johnny Depp - From Hell' special," ITV (January 2002)

 * I want to do kiddie movies now. I'm fed up with adult movies — most of them stink. At a certain point with movies it becomes all about mathematics: this has to lead up to this, this has to lead up to that — you're always bound by some kind of formula. But since having kids and watching lots of animated cartoons and all those great old Disney films, I think they're better, they're much better. They're more fun and they take more risks.
 * Quoted in Jessamy Calkin, "One That Got Away," The Daily Telegraph Magazine (2002-08-03)

 * I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.
 * Quoted in Ron Dicker, "Going deep with rebel Johnny Depp," Baltimore Sun (2003-07-08)

 * The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.
 * Quoted in Ron Dicker, "Going deep with rebel Johnny Depp," Baltimore Sun (2003-07-08)

 * The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job.
 * Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)

 * I do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don't know why. We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.
 * Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)

 * Depp: I would never be disrespectful to my country, to the people, especially the kids who are over there serving in the armed forces. My uncle was wounded in Vietnam, paralyzed from the neck down. I would never say those things the way they claim I said them. Interviewer: What exactly did you say? Depp: I essentially said the United States is a very young country compared with Europe. We're still growing. That's it. I wouldn't say anything anti-American. I'm an American, and I love my country. Interviewer: What's your view of President Bush? Depp: What can I say? He's somebody's kid. He's somebody's father. God bless him. Good luck. You know what I mean? I don't agree with his politics, and I'm not going to pretend to, but I don't agree with a lot of people's politics.
 * Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)

 * When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.
 * Quoted in Josh Young, "The Neverland Effect," Life (2004-11-19), p. 8

 * I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste... The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?
 * Quoted in Steven Daly, "The Maverick King," Vanity Fair (November 2004)

 * I’ve known that there have been a kind of select group of people, amazing die-hard supporters, even through some of the more, shall we say, odd films. These people, bless them, have stuck with me the whole length of the road. To say that you appreciate it is not nearly enough. It’s part of the essence, or fuel, of what keeps you going. These people are my boss; they’re the ones who keep me employed. A couple of times, they could have said, Let’s abandon him. And they haven’t. You don’t want to let them down.
 * Quoted in Steven Daly, "The Maverick King," Vanity Fair (November 2004)

 * Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, "I love Captain Jack Sparrow."
 * Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)

Quotes about Johnny Depp

 * I like the Coen brothers. Their films are smart and disturbing. I am very impressed by what George Clooney is doing now. He is very political. I like the fact that he did Oceans Eleven and Oceans Twelve, made all that money and then leveraged the money and his success into interesting projects. Johnny Depp has also set up a production company and is showing an interest in risky projects that will not be easy. I am sorry that it is hard for the average person, and even for an above-average person, to see a film that is not a Hollywood production. You see those films only in the festivals. There are few people there. That is worrying. People don't think. My goal in work is to make them think. The media do the opposite.
 * Terry Gilliam, "Terry Gilliam's flying circus" in Haaretz (23 February 2006)

 * We watched everything...A family favorite was Cry-Baby starring Johnny Depp. Whenever the John Waters film broke out in song, we would all scream and start singing, too.
 * Ilhan Omar This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (2020)

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Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Roy Rush, AC (born 6 July 1951) is an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning Australian actor. He is the first Australian-born person to win an Academy Award for acting.

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 * But there is a scary side to acting for me, because I have always wanted to develop rather than plateau out. When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
 * "Geoffrey Rush interview".

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is a British actor. He has starred in the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogy, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, and many other movies such as Troy and Elizabethtown.

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 * I haven't been like, "Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!"
 * Emily Blunt interview

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Talk:Ralph Peters

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Let's get Mr. Peters into the place of one of our naive-to-a-fault Congresspeople.
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Project Page
The current Wikiquote page on Ralph Peters is little more than a stub. Out of the several-dozen books that Peters has written, just a handful are quoted here. I am making this one of my Project Pages, aiming to expand and improve the page steadily. As Peters is a prolific author and it will take time to buy and read each of his many books, I am estimating the date of effective completion for this as a project page will be 2025-2027. I will add notes on the Discussion page as I go. Anyone else who wishes to contribute to improving this page is welcome to do so.

I have also copied over a list of Peters' collective works from Wikipedia, for reference when working on his page. As progress is made I will add a notation that each book has at least an adequate number of quotes.

Novels

 * As Ralph Peters
 * Bravo Romeo – 1981 ISBN 978-0399900976
 * Red Army – 1989 ISBN 978-0671676681
 * The War in 2020 – 1991 ISBN 0671676709
 * Flames of Heaven: A Novel of the End of the Soviet Union – 1994 ISBN 0811726843
 * The Perfect Soldier – 1995 ISBN 0671865838
 * The Devil's Garden – 1998 ISBN 978-0811731065
 * Twilight of Heroes – 1999 ISBN 0811726908
 * Traitor – 1999 ISBN 0380976412
 * The War After Armageddon – 2009 ISBN 978-0765323552
 * The Officers' Club – 2011 ISBN 978-0765326805
 * Cain at Gettysburg – 2012 ISBN 978-0765330475
 * Hell or Richmond – 2013 ISBN 978-0765330482
 * Valley of the Shadow – 2015 ISBN 978-0765374035
 * The Damned of Petersburg – 2016 ISBN 978-0765374066
 * Judgment at Appomattox – 2017 ISBN 0765381702
 * Darkness at Chancellorsville: A Novel of Stonewall Jackson's Triumph and Tragedy – 2019 ISBN 0765381737
 * As Owen Parry
 * Faded Coat of Blue – 1999 ISBN 978-0380976423; OCLC 41035507
 * Shadows of Glory – 2000 ISBN 978-0380976430; OCLC 44949833
 * Call Each River Jordan – 2001 ISBN 978-0060186388; OCLC 48754087
 * Honor's Kingdom – 2002 ISBN 978-0060186340; OCLC 48613435
 * The Bold Sons of Erin – 2003 ISBN 978-0060513900; OCLC 52041095
 * Our Simple Gifts: Civil War Christmas Tales – 2004 ISBN 978-0060013783; OCLC 49699128
 * Strike the Harp!: American Christmas Stories – 2004 ISBN 978-0060572365; OCLC 54529066
 * The Rebels of Babylon: a Novel – 2005 ISBN 978-0060513924; OCLC 56068791
 * As Robert Paston
 * The Hour of the Innocents – 2014 ISBN 978-0765326812

Nonfiction
AC9016 (talk) 04:56, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph? – 1999 ISBN 0811706516
 * Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World – 2002 ISBN 0811700240
 * Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern War and Peace – 2003 ISBN 0811700844
 * New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy – 2005 ISBN 1595230114
 * Never Quit the Fight – 2006 ISBN 978-0811702744
 * Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century – 2007 ISBN 081170274X
 * Looking For Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World – 2008 ISBN 0811734102
 * Endless War – 2010 ISBN 978-0811705509
 * Lines of Fire: A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security – 2011 ISBN 0811705889

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Edward R. Murrow

Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; 25 April 1908 – 27 April 1965) was an American journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada. Many journalists consider Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures. A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of TV news reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Quotes

 *  This... is London.
 * Lead in line to his broadcasts from London, England during World War II

 * Good night, and good luck.
 * Sign off line of his radio and TV broadcasts.

 * This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading—the sum total of our experience.
 * Introducing the first broadcast of "This is the News" (September 1947)

 * It seems to me that any action that arbitrarily limits the citizen's access to sight, sound and print, upon which opinion can be based, is, in the true sense of the phrase, un-American.
 * In response to the House Un-American Activities Committee's ban on radio recording and television cameras from public hearings (1 February 1949), quoted in The New York Times

 * Is it not possible that an unruly head of hair, an infectious smile, eyes that seem remarkable for the depths of their sincerity, a cultivated air of authority, may attract huge television audiences regardless of the violence that may be done to truth or objectivity?
 * As quoted in The Saturday Evening Post (December 1949)

 * If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the ... confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought.
 * Ford Fiftieth Anniversary Show, CBS and NBC (June 1953)

 * When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
 * 1959, Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of Communication in the Modern World, The British Association Granada Lectures, (Three lectures given in Guildhall London in October 1959 on the subject of communication in the modern world), Lecture Title: Television and Politics, Speaker: Edward R. Murrow, Start Page 47, Quote Page 75 and 76, Published by Granada TV, London.

 * No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
 * CBS television broadcast, on See It Now (7 March 1954)

 * He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
 * On Sir Winston Churchill, in a CBS broadcast (30 November 1954)

 * Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.
 * Television broadcast, (31 December 1955)

 * The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
 * Address at London Guildhall (19 October 1959)

 * The politician is...trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
 * Address at London Guildhall (19 October 1959)

 * After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.
 * On the televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon (26 September 1960)

 * Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
 * Comments after President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (20 January 1961).

 * American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
 * Speaking as the Director of USIA, in testimony before a Congressional Committee (May 1963)

 * If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
 * On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964); as quoted in Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow by Alexander Kendrick (1969)

 * The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
 * On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)

 * A satellite has no conscience.
 * On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)

 * The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
 * On receiving the "Family of Man" Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York (28 October 1964)

 * We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
 * Response as director of the U.S. Information Agency to Senate critics who wanted him to ignore racial problems to promote a better public image abroad. As quoted in Life (7 May 1965)

 * The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.
 * As quoted by Alexander Kendrick in Prime Time (1969)

 * Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.
 * As quoted in The Improbable Irish (1969) by Walter Bryan

 * We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks — that's show business.
 * As quoted by Bill Moyers CBS TV (10 September 1986)

 * The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
 * As quoted in Mad about Physics : Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities (2001) by Christopher Jargodzki

Broadcast from Buchenwald (1945)

 * CBS radio broadcast from Buchenwald (15 April 1945); audio and transcript

 * As I walked down to the end of the barracks, there was applause from the men too weak to get out of bed. It sounded like the hand clapping of babies; they were so weak.

 * We went to the hospital; it was full. The doctor told me that two hundred had died the day before. I asked the cause of death; he shrugged and said, "Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live."

 * It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years.

 * I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words. If I've offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least sorry.

This I Believe (1951)

 * Full transcript and audio recording at This I Believe.

 * This I Believe — by that name, we present the personal philosophies of thoughtful men and women in all walks of life. In this brief space, a banker or a butcher, a painter or a social worker, people of all kinds who need have nothing more in common than integrity, a real honesty, will write about the rules they live by, the things they have found to be the basic values in their lives.

 * We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion — a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.

 * There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor’s yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.

 * Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

 * Perhaps we should warn you that there is one thing you won’t read, and that is a pat answer for the problems of life. We don’t pretend to make this a spiritual or psychological patent-medicine chest where one can come and get a pill of wisdom, to be swallowed like an aspirin, to banish the headaches of our times.

 * This reporter’s beliefs are in a state of flux. It would be easier to enumerate the items I do not believe in, than the other way around. And yet in talking to people, in listening to them, I have come to realize that I don’t have a monopoly on the world’s problems. Others have their share, often far bigger than mine. This has helped me to see my own in truer perspective: and in learning how others have faced their problems — this has given me fresh ideas about how to tackle mine.

Speech to his staff (1954)

 * Widely quoted comments from a speech to his staff before the broadcast of the See It Now program on Joe McCarthy (9 March 1954); As quoted in "Edward R. Murrow and the Time of His Time" by Joseph Wershba

 * All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

 * No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

 * If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

 * The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think — that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

See It Now (1954)

 * "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" (See It Now, 9 March 1954); transcript

 * No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Good night, and good luck.
 * The reference to Cassius is that of the character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Listen to an mp3 sound file of parts of this statement.

 * Last week, Senator McCarthy appeared on this program to correct any errors he might have thought we made in our report of March ninth. Since he made no reference to any statements of fact that we made, we must conclude that he found no errors of fact.  He proved again, that anyone who exposes him, anyone who does not share his hysterical disregard for decency and human dignity and the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, must be either a Communist or a 'fellow traveler'.
 * Murrow's 13 April 1954 reply to Senator Joseph McCarthy's See It Now appearance

RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

 * Speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) convention in Chicago (15 October 1958). Full audio recording.

 * This just might do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest, and your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical and even dangerous thoughts. But the elaborate structure of networks, advertising agencies and sponsors will not be shaken or altered. It is my desire, if not my duty, to try to talk to you journeymen with some candor about what is happening to radio and television.

 * I have no technical advice or counsel to offer those of you who labor in this vineyard, the one that produces words and pictures. You will, I am sure, forgive me for not telling you that instruments with which you work are miraculous, that your responsibility is unprecedented or that your aspirations are frequently frustrated. It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. All of these things you know.
 * A variant of part of this statement is often quoted: Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

 * I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

 * Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or perhaps color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

 * During the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: LOOK NOW AND PAY LATER. For surely we shall pay for using this most powerful instrument of communication to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must be faced if we are to survive. I mean the word survive literally.

 * I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is--an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate.

 * If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, and only when packaged to fit the advertising appropriation of a sponsor, then I don't care what you call it — I say it isn't news.

 * One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. The top management of the networks with a few notable exceptions, has been trained in advertising, research, sales or show business. But by the nature of the corporate structure, they also make the final and crucial decisions having to do with news and public affairs. Frequently they have neither the time nor the competence to do this.

 * I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which is superior to any other. But to achieve its promise, it must be both free and enterprising. There is no suggestion here that networks or individual stations should operate as philanthropies. But I can find nothing in the Bill of Rights or in the Communications Act which says that they must increase their net profits each year, lest the Republic collapse.

 * I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

 * Do not be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste. All are responsible to stockholders, and in my experience all are honorable men. But they must schedule what they can sell in the public market.

 * The sponsor of an hour's television program is not buying merely the six minutes devoted to commercial message. He is determining, within broad limits, the sum total of the impact of the entire hour. If he always, invariably, reaches for the largest possible audience, then this process of insulation, of escape from reality, will continue to be massively financed, and its apologist will continue to make winsome speeches about giving the public what it wants, or "letting the public decide."

 * If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upon us. We are engaged in a great experiment to discover whether a free public opinion can devise and direct methods of managing the affairs of the nation. We may fail. But we are handicapping ourselves needlessly.

 * Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

 * We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

 * We are to a large extent an imitative society.

 * This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful. Stonewall Jackson, who knew something about the use of weapons, is reported to have said, "When war comes, you must draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." The trouble with television is that it is rusting in the scabbard during a battle for survival.

 * ...if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it...

Misattributed

 * We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.
 * Attributed by Murrow to an unnamed farmer in "Harvest of Shame", CBS Reports (24 November 1960)

Quotes about Murrow

 * Murrow taking on McCarthy was one of the great high points in broadcast journalism, along with Cronkite stepping out from behind his desk and talking about how Vietnam doesn't work were two moments in broadcast journalism that you could point directly to and say actually changed American policy... I don't know a reporter that doesn't want to break a big news story. It is constantly the battle between commerce and news, or keeping entertainment from pushing the news off the air... I was looking to open a debate, to have a discussion, to be able to talk about issues that I think are important. It's simply saying, as Murrow says in the film, we have to find a way to find a safe place between the protection of the individual and the protection of the state at the same time.
 * George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck, PBS News, Jeffrey Brown, (6 Oct 2005)

 * Last week may be remembered as the week that broadcasting recaptured its soul.
 * Jack Gould, TV critic for The New York Times after Murrow's See It Now broadcast of 9 March 1954.

 * One of those rare legendary figures who was as good as his myth.
 * David Halberstam in The Powers That Be

 * Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don't try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don't mix.
 * Bill Moyers, in the last episode of Bill Moyers Journal (30 April 2010) · video

 * It was astonishing how often his name and work came up. To somebody outside CBS it is probably hard to believe...Time and again I heard someone say, "Ed wouldn't have done it that way."
 * Dan Rather in The Camera Never Blinks

 * What separated Murrow from the pack was courage.
 * Dan Rather quoted in Anchoring America: The Changing Face of Network News (2003) by Jeff Alan

 * He set standards of excellence that remain unsurpassed.
 * Inscription on a plaque dedicated to Murrow in the lobby of CBS headquarters in New York City.

 * He was a resolute and uncompromising man of truth.
 * CBS Chairman William Paley, in his eulogy of Murrow.

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We Were Soldiers

We Were Soldiers is a 2002 film about the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam in November, 1965 — the first clash between a force of US troops and the People's Army of Vietnam and the start of America's commitment to the Vietnam War.
 * Directed and written by Randall Wallace, based on the book We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. "Hal" Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.

Fathers, Brothers, Husbands & Sons.taglines

Lt. Col. Hal Moore

 * [addressing his troops on the parade ground.] Look around you. In the Seventh Cavalry, we got a captain from the Ukraine. Another from Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, Chinese, blacks, Hispanics, Cherokee Indians, Jews and gentiles — all Americans. Now, here in the States, some men in this unit may experience discrimination because of race or creed. But for you and me now, all that is gone. We're moving into the Valley of the Shadow of Death, where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won't care what color he is or by what name he calls God. They say we're leaving home. We're going to what home was always supposed to be. I can't promise that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear before you and before Almighty God: that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off. And I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me God.
 * Neither the new technology nor your status as officers will keep you above the danger. Sergeant Major Plumley and I come from the paratroopers, where the officer is always the first man out of the plane. Because to follow your instincts and inspire your men by your example, you have to be with them — where the metal meets the meat...Now, I hope you men like training, 'cause me and the Sergeant Major... we love it!

Joe Galloway

 * [voice-over] These are the true events of November, 1965. The Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, a place our country does not remember in a war it does not understand. This story is a testament to the young Americans who died in the Valley of Death, and a tribute to the young men of the People's Army of Vietnam who died by our hand in that place.

Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An

 * Such a tragedy. They will think this was their victory. So this will become an American war. And the end will be the same... except for the numbers who will die before we get there.

Dialogue

 * [In a flashback sequence: after ambushing a French column, Viet Minh troops stand over the wounded survivors.]
 * Viet Minh soldier: [in subtitles] Do we take prisoners?
 * Lt. Nguyen Huu An: [in subtitles] No. Kill all they send, and they will stop coming.
 * [The Viet Minh troops proceed to execute the surviving French soldiers.]

 * Hal: When Crazy Horse was a baby, he nursed at the breast of every woman in the tribe. The Sioux raised their children that way. Every warrior called every woman in the tribe "Mother". Every older warrior, they called him "Grandfather". Now, the point here is that they fought as a family. Take care of your men. Teach them to take care of each other. 'Cause when this starts... each other is all we're gonna have. [Moore goes aside with new radio operator]
 * Plumley: Any of you sons-of-bitches calls me "Grandpa"... I'll kill ya.

 * [Julie Moore is hosting a meeting of officers' wives.]
 * Catherine: The laundromat in town's okay, but they won't let you wash your colored things in their machines.
 * Barbara: At a public laundromat?
 * Catherine: Didn't make any sense to me either, but I'm telling you — they have a big sign right in the window, says "Whites Only". [an awkward silence]) What?
 * Alma: Honey, they mean white people only.
 * Catherine: That's awful. Your husband is wearing the uniform of a country that allows a place to... to say that his laundry's not good enough, when he could die for... I'm sorry, I just —
 * Alma: That's all right, honey. I know what my husband's fighting for, and that's why I can smile. My husband will never ask for respect, and he'll give respect to no man who hasn't earned it. The rest of his family's the same way. And anybody who doesn't respect that can keep his goddamn washing machine, 'cause my baby's clothes are gonna be clean anyway!
 * Julie: [amid general laughter] Well, I guess that takes care of item number two!

 * Hal: [praying] Our Father in Heaven, before we go into battle every soldier among us will approach You, each in his own way. Our enemies too, according to their own understanding, will ask for protection and for victory. And so we bow before Your infinite wisdom. We offer our prayers as best we can. I pray that You watch over the young men like Jack Geoghegan that I lead into battle; You use me as Your instrument in this awful hell of war, to watch over them. Especially if they are men like this one beside me deserving of a future in Your blessing and good will. Amen.
 * Jack: Amen.
 * Hal: Oh, yes, and one more thing, dear Lord — about our enemies? Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to hell. Amen again.
 * Jack: Uh... Amen.

 * [Lt. Herrick's men, isolated from the rest of the unit, are under heavy fire.]
 * Lt. Herrick: Grab the wounded! Break contact! Fall back, get to high ground! Cover fire! Get to high ground, come on! Come on, get up here! Bring the wounded up to the middle! Cover fire, cover fire! (more enemy troops open fire from the rear) Everybody down! DOWN! (after a heavy exchange of gunfire, Herrick jumps to his feet) Come on! I'll get us out of here! AH! (shot, he falls)
 * Platoon Sergeant: Grab the wounded! We'll make a run — (shot, he falls)
 * Senior Sergeant: We gotta get out of here — (shot, he falls)
 * Sgt. Savage: STAY DOWN! Don't anybody move — Bungum, stay down! Form a perimeter, conserve your ammo, and stay down!

 * [Taxicabs have been delivering death-notice telegrams to military families; when a cab arrives at her house, Julie Moore reluctantly answers the door.]
 * Driver: [removes his hat] Mrs. Moore? Colonel Moore's wife?
 * Julie Moore: Yes.
 * Driver: I need help finding an address. I'm looking for —
 * Julie: You JACKASS! Do you know what this is?! Do you know what you just did to me?!
 * [The driver sheepishly walks toward his cab, but stops at the curb.]
 * Driver: I-I don't like this job, Ma'am. I'm just trying to do it. [continues toward cab]
 * Julie: Wait. Wait! [runs to the cab] I'll take it to her. [she takes the telegram] And tell the cab company if there are any others, just bring them to me.

 * Maj. Crandall: It's the last flight for the night, Colonel — but you need us, you call us.
 * [Later, after Crandall lands, one of the Medevac pilots from earlier in the day finds him]
 * Medevac Pilot: Crandall! You led my men into a hot LZ!
 * Maj. Crandall: Yeah, somebody had to fly out the wounded...
 * Medevac Pilot: No, no, don't you play hotshot with me! Now, you know the rules. You suckered us in there. You ever do it again, I'm gonna have you busted! [shoves Crandall]
 * Maj. Crandall: [pulls out his revolver] You've got the BALLS to face me but not enough balls to face the enemy?!
 * Capt. Freeman: Hey! Hey, hey, hey! Whoa! [separates the two and maintains the distance]
 * Maj. Crandall: If I ever see you again, I'll kill you. [The Medevac pilot looks at him, then walks away] That's right.
 * Capt. Freeman: Hey... what a day, huh?
 * Maj. Crandall: Tomorrow will get worse. If they make it to tomorrow.

 * [Face-down on the ground under a storm of enemy fire, photographer Joe Galloway gets a combat boot in the stomach.]
 * Sgt.Maj. Plumley: Can't take no pictures lyin' down there, Sonny!
 * [Plumley hands Galloway an M-16 and several magazines.]
 * Galloway: Uh, sir? I-I'm a noncombatant, sir.
 * Plumley: Ain't no such thing today, boy.
 * [Vietnamese troops are advancing on the termite mound where casualties have been collected.]
 * Plumley: [chambering a round in his .45] Gentlemen — prepare to defend yourselves!
 * [Vietnamese troops are advancing on the termite mound where casualties have been collected.]
 * Plumley: [chambering a round in his .45] Gentlemen — prepare to defend yourselves!

 * Hal: I'll never forgive myself.
 * Galloway: For what, sir?
 * Hal: For the fact that... my men died... and I didn't.

Taglines

 * Fathers, Brothers, Husbands & Sons.
 * We were... young, brave, husbands, wives, sons, mothers, daughters, soldiers.
 * 400 U.S paratroopers. 4000 Vietnamese soldiers. 12 000 miles away from home. 1 man led them into battle.

Cast

 * Mel Gibson - Lt. Col. Hal Moore
 * Madeleine Stowe - Julia Moore, Hal's wife
 * Greg Kinnear - Maj. Bruce "Snake" Crandall
 * Sam Elliott - Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley
 * Chris Klein - 2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan
 * Keri Russell - Barbara Geoghegan
 * Barry Pepper - Joe Galloway
 * Don Duong - Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An
 * Ryan Hurst - Sgt. Ernie Savage
 * Robert Bagnell - 1st Lt. Charlie Hastings
 * Marc Blucas - 2nd Lt. Henry Herrick
 * Josh Daugherty - Sp4 Robert Ouellette
 * Jsu Garcia - Capt. Tony Nadal
 * Clark Gregg - Capt. Tom Metsker
 * Desmond Harrington - Sp4 Bill Beck
 * Blake Heron - Sp4 Galen Bungum
 * Erik MacArthur - Sp4 Russell Adams
 * Dylan Walsh - Capt. Robert Edwards
 * Josh McLaurin - Greg Moore, Hal & Julia's son
 * Devon Werkheiser - Steve Moore, Hal & Julia's son
 * Taylor Momsen - Julie Moore, Hal & Julia's daughter
 * Sloane Momsen - Cecile Moore, Hal & Julia's daughter
 * Luke Benward - David Moore, Hal & Julia's son
 * Mark McCracken - Capt. Ed "Too Tall" Freeman
 * Bellamy Young - Catherine Metsker
 * Simbi Khali - Alma Givens
 * Lyndon Johnson - himself (archive footage)

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Pope Leo X

Pope Leo X (born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 1475 - 1 December 1521) was head of the Roman Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in 1521.

Born into the prominent political and banking Medici family of Florence, Giovanni was the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of the Florentine Republic, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1489. Following the death of Pope Julius II, Giovanni was elected pope after securing the backing of the younger members of the Sacred College. Early on in his rule he oversaw the closing sessions of the Fifth Council of the Lateran, but struggled to implement the reforms agreed. In 1517 he led a costly war that succeeded in securing his nephew as Duke of Urbino, which reduced papal finances.

In Protestant circles, Leo is associated with granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica, a practice that was soon challenged by Martin Luther's 95 Theses. Leo rejected the Protestant Reformation, and his Papal bull of 1520, Exsurge Domine, condemned Martin Luther's condemnatory stance, rendering ongoing communication difficult.

Quotes

 * Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it.
 * Statement to his brother, Giuliano, as quoted in The Claims of Christianity (1894) by William Samuel Lilly, p. 191

 * Made thirty, we should make thirty-one
 * Statement (1 July 1517), when he created 30 new cardinals. Another priest, who seemed to him also worthy, was nominated during the ceremony.

Exsurge Domine (1520)

 * Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text online

 * Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

 * Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.

 * Some, putting aside her true interpretation of Sacred Scripture, are blinded in mind by the father of lies. Wise in their own eyes, according to the ancient practice of heretics, they interpret these same Scriptures otherwise than the Holy Spirit demands, inspired only by their own sense of ambition, and for the sake of popular acclaim, as the Apostle declares. In fact, they twist and adulterate the Scriptures. As a result, according to Jerome, "It is no longer the Gospel of Christ, but a man's, or what is worse, the devil's." Let all this holy Church of God, I say, arise, and with the blessed apostles intercede with almighty God to purge the errors of His sheep, to banish all heresies from the lands of the faithful, and be pleased to maintain the peace and unity of His holy Church. For we can scarcely express, from distress and grief of mind, what has reached our ears for some time by the report of reliable men and general rumor; alas, we have even seen with our eyes and read the many diverse errors.

 * In virtue of our pastoral office committed to us by the divine favor we can under no circumstances tolerate or overlook any longer the pernicious poison of the above errors without disgrace to the Christian religion and injury to orthodox faith. Some of these errors we have decided to include in the present document; their substance is as follows:
 * It is a heretical opinion, but a common one, that the sacraments of the New Law give pardoning grace to those who do not set up an obstacle.
 * To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.
 * The inflammable sources of sin, even if there be no actual sin, delay a soul departing from the body from entrance into heaven.
 * To one on the point of death imperfect charity necessarily brings with it great fear, which in itself alone is enough to produce the punishment of purgatory, and impedes entrance into the kingdom.
 * That there are three parts to penance: contrition, confession, and satisfaction, has no foundation in Sacred Scripture nor in the ancient sacred Christian doctors.

 * Sins are not forgiven to anyone, unless when the priest forgives them he believes they are forgiven; on the contrary the sin would remain unless he believed it was forgiven; for indeed the remission of sin and the granting of grace does not suffice, but it is necessary also to believe that there has been forgiveness.
 * By no means can you have reassurance of being absolved because of your contrition, but because of the word of Christ: "Whatsoever you shall loose, etc." Hence, I say, trust confidently, if you have obtained the absolution of the priest, and firmly believe yourself to have been absolved, and you will truly be absolved, whatever there may be of contrition.

 * Excommunications are only external penalties and they do not deprive man of the common spiritual prayers of the Church.

 * Christians must be taught to cherish excommunications rather than to fear them.
 * The Roman Pontiff, the successor of Peter, is not the vicar of Christ over all the churches of the entire world, instituted by Christ Himself in blessed Peter.
 * The word of Christ to Peter: "Whatsoever you shall loose on earth," etc., is extended merely to those things bound by Peter himself.
 * It is certain that it is not in the power of the Church or the pope to decide upon the articles of faith, and much less concerning the laws for morals or for good works.
 * If the pope with a great part of the Church thought so and so, he would not err; still it is not a sin or heresy to think the contrary, especially in a matter not necessary for salvation, until one alternative is condemned and another approved by a general Council.
 * A way has been made for us for weakening the authority of councils, and for freely contradicting their actions, and judging their decrees, and boldly confessing whatever seems true, whether it has been approved or disapproved by any council whatsoever.
 * Some articles of John Hus, condemned in the Council of Constance, are most Christian, wholly true and evangelical; these the universal Church could not condemn.
 * In every good work the just man sins.

 * A good work done very well is a venial sin.
 * That heretics be burned is against the will of the Spirit.
 * To go to war against the Turks is to resist God who punishes our iniquities through them.

 * No one of sound mind is ignorant how destructive, pernicious, scandalous, and seductive to pious and simple minds these various errors are, how opposed they are to all charity and reverence for the holy Roman Church who is the mother of all the faithful and teacher of the faith; how destructive they are of the vigor of ecclesiastical discipline, namely obedience. This virtue is the font and origin of all virtues and without it anyone is readily convicted of being unfaithful. Therefore we, in this above enumeration, important as it is, wish to proceed with great care as is proper, and to cut off the advance of this plague and cancerous disease so it will not spread any further in the Lord's field as harmful thorn-bushes.

 * With the advice and consent of these our venerable brothers, with mature deliberation on each and every one of the above theses, and by the authority of almighty God, the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and our own authority, we condemn, reprobate, and reject completely each of these theses or errors as either heretical, scandalous, false, offensive to pious ears or seductive of simple minds, and against Catholic truth. By listing them, we decree and declare that all the faithful of both sexes must regard them as condemned, reprobated, and rejected….We restrain all in the virtue of holy obedience and under the penalty of an automatic major excommunication.... Moreover, because the preceding errors and many others are contained in the books or writings of Martin Luther, we likewise condemn, reprobate, and reject completely the books and all the writings and sermons of the said Martin, whether in Latin or any other language, containing the said errors or any one of them; and we wish them to be regarded as utterly condemned, reprobated, and rejected. We forbid each and every one of the faithful of either sex, in virtue of holy obedience and under the above penalties to be incurred automatically, to read, assert, preach, praise, print, publish, or defend them. They will incur these penalties if they presume to uphold them in any way, personally or through another or others, directly or indirectly, tacitly or explicitly, publicly or occultly, either in their own homes or in other public or private places.

 * Therefore let Martin himself and all those adhering to him, and those who shelter and support him, through the merciful heart of our God and the sprinkling of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ by which and through whom the redemption of the human race and the upbuilding of holy mother Church was accomplished, know that from our heart we exhort and beseech that he cease to disturb the peace, unity, and truth of the Church for which the Savior prayed so earnestly to the Father. Let him abstain from his pernicious errors that he may come back to us. If they really will obey, and certify to us by legal documents that they have obeyed, they will find in us the affection of a father's love, the opening of the font of the effects of paternal charity, and opening of the font of mercy and clemency. We enjoin, however, on Martin that in the meantime he cease from all preaching or the office of preacher...

Disputed

 * It has served us well, this myth of Christ.
 * Widely attributed to Leo X, the earliest known source of this statement is actually a polemical work by the Protestant John Bale, the anti-Catholic Acta Romanorum Pontificum, which was first translated from Latin into English as The Pageant of the Popes in 1574: "For on a time when a cardinall Bembus did move a question out of the Gospell, the Pope gave him a very contemptuous answer saying: All ages can testifie enough how profitable that fable of Christe hath ben to us and our companie." The Pope in this case being Leo X.
 * In a more modern polemic, "The Criminal History of the Papacy" by Tony Bushby, in Nexus Magazine Volume 14, Number 3 (April - May 2007), it is stated that "The pope's pronouncement is recorded in the diaries and records of both Pietro Cardinal Bembo (Letters and Comments on Pope Leo X, 1842 reprint) and Paolo Cardinal Giovio (De Vita Leonis Decimi..., op. cit.), two associates who were witnesses to it."

Quotes about Leo X

 * Sorted alphabetically by author or source

 * Leo X succeeded Julius II, and under his pontificate, Latin Christianity assumed a pagan, Greco-Roman character, which, passing from art into manners, gives to this epoch a strange complexion. Crimes for the moment disappeared, to give place to vices; but to charming vices, vices in good taste, such as those indulged in by Alcibiades and sung by Catullus.
 * Alexandre Dumas, in "The Cenci", in Celebrated Crimes (1839), Vol. I, P F Collier & Son edition (1910), pp. 361–414

 * The pope is a good-natured and extremely free-hearted man, who avoids every difficult situation and above all wants peace; he would not undertake a war himself unless forced into it by his advisors; he loves learning; of canon law and literature he possesses remarkable knowledge; he is, moreover, a very excellent musician.
 * Marino Giorgi, in remarks as Venetian ambassador (March 1517), reported in Historia de los Papas, Tomo IV, Vol VIII (1910) by Ludovico Pastor, p. 62

Cur Leo non potuit sumere: vendiderat.'' He had chosen the chalice and paten to sell.
 * ''Sacra sub extrema, si forte requiritis, hora
 * Leo lack'd the last sacrament. Why, need we tell?
 * Jacopo Sannazaro, as quoted in Epigrams, Ancient and Modern (1865), edited John Booth, p. 150
 * Variant translations:
 * If by chance you ask why in his last hour Leo wasn't able to take the sacraments: he had sold them.

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