The Way We Saw It
THE WAY WE SAW IT The following are excerpts from articles and editorials published by The Progressive since its founding on January 9, 1909. They have been edited only to achieve brevity....
...Thurman Arnold, November 1942...
...Military power is of value when it enables you to do something to somebody else that he cannot do to you at about the same time to about the same extent...
...Morris H. Rubin, July 1944 Into the cauldron I do not know all the facts which determined the U.S...
...Mohandas Gandhi, June 1942 The importance of lawyers Law schools are institutions designed to make simple things look complicated, thus increasing the importance of lawyers, while keeping their potential rivals out of circulation for three years...
...Its power is centralized...
...It is silent, unseen, omnipresent...
...THE WAY WE SAW IT The following are excerpts from articles and editorials published by The Progressive since its founding on January 9, 1909...
...Ralph Barton Perry, July 1954 When in Rome Mussolini ordered Italian officials to ride motorcycles and cheap cars and not to wear silk hats that there might be a better understanding between the government and the people...
...Those who are greedy for power know a quicker and easier way...
...Joseph Baldus, February 1926 The military balance The whole conception of military power exploded with the first Russian atomic bomb...
...Persuasion is a patient and difficult method of control...
...Unless an author's name is appended, the material was editorial comment...
...to throw herself into the cauldron . . . America could have remained out...
...Even now she can do so if she divests herself of the intoxication her immense wealth has produced...
...Robert M. LaFollette Sr., March 1913 By the back door Every one of the steps we took on the road to war was described to us as a "step short of war" or as a device for "keeping neutral...
...A quicker way Tolerance goes against the grain .. . It is tempting to destroy the errant, and often obnoxious, dissenter, egged on by other assenters...
...Robert Hutchins, October 1952 Privilege prevails Privilege controls everywhere...
Vol. 44 • January 1980 • No. 1
