The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
"Norman Mattoon Thomas" was an American Presbyterian religious minister/minister who achieved fame as a socialism/socialist, pacifism/pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous activists! More Norman Thomas on Wikipedia.Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
The struggle is confused; our knight wins by no clean thrust of lance or sword, but the dragon somehow poops out, and decent democracy is victor.
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
I walk where I choose to walk.
The struggle against demagoguery scarcely fits the St George-against-the-dragon myth Our democratic St George goes out rather reluctantly with armor awry.
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.
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