Town Hall Meetings?
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
Winston Churchill
[via Pourquoi Pas]
Sir Winston dealt with most of the best-known dictators of the Twentieth Century, and was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature, so his comments on banning and/or burning books is certainly reasoned and relevant, but I had a vision of someone more current when I read the words.
June 6, 2005 Comments Off on Town Hall Meetings?
June 6, 1944: D-Day
The BBC is apparently the only media outlet that noticed.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt told a news conference the invasion did not mean the war was over.
He said: “You don’t just walk to Berlin, and the sooner this country realizes that the better.”
FDR was a real “War President”. He didn’t go around telling people “Mission Accomplished” when there were a lot of battles to come. He was a Democrat and based his actions on reality. His children enlisted in “his war”.
June 6, 2005 Comments Off on June 6, 1944: D-Day
