A People's Speech Is The Skin Of

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

The Fact Is That Life Has Become A Sweepstake. Millions Of People Who Have Lost The Sense Of Being Able To Make Anything Of The Collective Effort Of Shaping Their Economic Society, Now Expect Fortune To Descend Like Pie From The Sky.

Meiklejohn's Position Is That Free Speech In A Democracy Is Not An Absolute Flowing From The Boundless Source Of Some Presumed 'natural Right.' It Is A Practical Necessity Of 'self-government By Universal Suffrage,' For If The Citizens Are Not Permitted To Argue Out The Issues Of Government, How Can They Be What They Must Be In A Democracy - The Rulers As Well As The Ruled?

Some Of The More Fatuous Flag-waving Americans Are In Danger Of Forgetting That You Can't Extract Gratitude As You Would Extract A Tooth; That Unless Friendship Is Freely Given, It Means Nothing And Less Than Nothing.

Power Politics Existed Before Machiavelli Was Ever Heard Of; It Will Exist Long After His Name Is Only A Faint Memory. What He Did, Like Harvey, Was To Recognize Its Existence And Subject It To Scientific Study.