Will Hays
Will Hays
Former President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. He created the first standards of decency for Hollywood productions.
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth5 November 1879
CitySullivan, IN
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Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.
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Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.
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I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
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Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.
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All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.