The Notes (21 page)
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lmighty God we acknowledge our dependence on thee and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers & our country.—U.S. Supreme Ct. Ruled it Unconst.
Sen. Fulbright
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t is possible that if Mao Tse Tung & Ho Chi Minh had not borne the title of Communist but otherwise had done exactly what they have done in their 2 countries, we would have accepted their victories over their domestic rivals & lived with them in peace.
Thomas Jefferson
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etter to John Jay Urging a Strong Navy & Prompt Retailiation Against Any Aggressor Seizing or Harassing U.S. Shipping:
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peedy retaliation was necessary because an insult unanswered is the parent of many others.”
RR’s Wisdom
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he path of history is littered with the bones of dead empires. If we are to follow we will have no decades or centuries for leisurely decay & disintegration. The enemy at our gates is combat lean & hard. Hungry for all we’ve created.
Winston Churchill
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n the Day After Munich 1938—All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness. And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the 1st sip, the 1st foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year, unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor we ride again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
Cicero
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e are taxed in our bread & wine—in our income & our investments—on our land & property—not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men—for foreign nations who bow to us & accept our largesse—& promise to assist in keeping the power—these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness—or when the treasury is bare—& surely it is becoming bare—were they bound to us by ties of love they would not ask for our gold—they hate & despise us—& who shall say we are worthy of more.
Book Uncommon Sense by James McGregor Burns
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he way in which Ams. live, the quality of Am. life is the most important aspect of Am. foreign policy today. The Democratic & above all the open way in which we have faced our social & economic problems has been the most impressive & influential aspect of Am. foreign policy not only in dealing with the Soviet U. but in our relations with other peoples in the world. This has little to do with Am. security—it has much to do with the moral worth of the Am. Svc. & the standards it could set for the world . . . The Am. declaration of independence is cited & copied throughout the emerging countries. Its precepts have proved contagious. At the very least Am. world leadership should so act as not to dishonor the ideas it has given to the world; at the most, it should act so as to help make them a reality. But paradoxically this cannot be forced upon others; each people must make its own independence, achieve its own liberty & equality.
Israeli Scientist
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hose nat’s. which have put liberty ahead of equality have ended up doing better by equality than those with the reverse principles.
Vladimir Lenin
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s long as capitalism & socialism exist we cannot live in peace. Socialists without ceasing to be socialists cannot oppose any kind of war.