|
2006 December 15
|
"It is the absolute right of the state
to supervise the formation of public opinion." |
"The restriction of knowledge to an elite group
destroys the spirit of the society and
leads to its intellectual impoverishment." |
"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward
monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the
concentration of more and more power over public opinion
in fewer and fewer hands." |
|
2006 December 14
|
"Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator
simply means that there will be another dictator. ...
the policies they follow will probably not be radically different.
If we look around the world, we quickly realize that these policies
will not be radically different from those that would be followed
by a democracy either." |
"I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so." |
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." |
|
2006 December 13
|
"Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident." |
"O, what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive!" |
"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse." |
|
2006 December 12
|
"You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time." |
"Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual?
We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or,
in the words of the ardent young Nazi, 'to be free from freedom.'" |
"The gods help them that help themselves." |
|
2006 December 11
|
"Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country." |
"Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it." |
"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." |
|
|
|
