Of all forms of government ...

Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.
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 Dorothy Thompson

Quotes from the same author

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
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 Dorothy Thompson
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
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 Dorothy Thompson
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
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 Dorothy Thompson
The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.
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 Dorothy Thompson
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
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 Dorothy Thompson