Optimism Is Denial, So Face The Facts

I Promise To Keep On Living As Though I Expected To Live Forever. Nobody Grows Old By Merely Living A Number Of Years. People Grow Old Only Be Deserting Their Ideals. Years May Wrinkle The Skin, But To Give Up Interest Wrinkles The Soul.

Our Government Has Kept Us In A Perpetual State Of Fear - Kept Us In A Continuous Stampede Of Patriotic Fervor - With The Cry Of Grave National Emergency. Always There Has Been Some Terrible Evil At Home Or Some Monstrous Foreign Power That Was Going To Gobble Us Up If We Did Not Blindly Rally Behind It By Furnishing The Exorbitant Funds Demanded. Yet, In Retrospect, These Disasters Seem Never To Have Happened, Seem Never To Have Been Quite Real.

We Have Had Our Last Chance. The Problem Now Is Basically Theological, And Involves Spirituality And Improvement Of Human Character. It Must Be Of The Spirit If We Are To Save The Flesh.

I Am Concerned For The Security Of Our Great Nation; Not So Much Because Of Any Threat From Without, But Because Of The Insidious Forces Working From Within.

Rules Are Mostly Made To Be Broken And Are Too Often For The Lazy To Hide Behind.