Norman Thomas
Norman Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomaswas an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 November 1884
CountryUnited States of America
order nwo common-sense
There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper.
socialist-government nwo names
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.
clean decent democracy dragon knight somehow struggle thrust wins
The struggle is confused; our knight wins by no clean thrust of lance or sword, but the dragon somehow poops out, and decent democracy is victor.
asked cost freedom matter replied win
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.
america face rather save soul
I'd rather see America save her soul than her face
war thinking said
All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.
war people would-be
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
military liberty democracy
He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.
real believe justice
I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.
hero levels rebellion
Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
law personality groups
The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.
vote applause
I always get more applause than votes.
men harry-truman president
Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.
sacrifice men liberty
Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.