The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.
The crisis [the Great ...
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.