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Whatever is right can be achieved through the irresistible power of awakened and informed public opinion. Our object, therefore, is not to enquire whether a thing can be done, but whether it ought to be done, to so exert the forces of publicity that public opinion will compel it be done.

— William Randolph Hearst

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We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

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