"our Government Will Soon Become What It

The Soviet Union Has Indeed Been Our Greatest Menace - Not So Much Because Of What It Has Done, But Because Of The Excuses It Has Provided Us For Our Own Failures.

The American Public Has Become So Conditioned By Crises, By Warnings, By Words, That There Are Few, Other Than The Young, Who Protest Against What Is Happening.

Some New Machinery With Adequate Powers Must Be Created Now If Our Fine Phrases And Noble Sentiments Are To Have Substance And Meaning For Our Children.

We Are Inclined To Confuse Freedom And Democracy, Which We Regard As Moral Principles, With The Way In Which They Are Practiced In America With Capitalism, Federalism, And The Two-party System, Which Are Not Moral Principles But Simply The Preferred And Accepted Practices Of The American People.

In A Democracy Dissent Is An Act Of Faith. Like Medicine, The Test Of Its Value Is Not In Its Taste, But In Its Effects.