When You Are Seventeen You Aren't Really

In Societies Like The American And West European Where The Dynamics Of Energy Come From Freedom And Where The Climate And The Whole Ethos Are Those Of Freedom, Censorship Is Bound To Be At Worst, Stupid; At Best, Futile; And Always, To Some Degree, Inconsonant With The Character Of The Society As A Whole.

It Is Not The Armed Forces Which Can Protect Our Democracy. It Is The Moral Strength Of Democracy Which Alone Can Give Any Meaning To The Efforts At Military Security.

Every Mob, In Its Ignorance And Blindness And Bewilderment, Is A League Of Frightened Men That Seeks Reassurance In Collective Action.

America Is A Passionate Idea Or It Is Nothing. America Is A Human Brotherhood Or It Is Chaos.

To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.