I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. . . . They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
Cycling is not rocket science.
One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.
O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.