Posted by Declan on August 31, 2006, at 19:33:00
In reply to Re: I'm morally and intellectually confused. » Jost, posted by gardenergirl on August 31, 2006, at 19:22:05
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty,” he said, in 1954. “We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.
“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular.”
And so good night, and good luck.
I really loved that film.
It may interest you that our most entertaining of foreign ministers (not my description) uses the same lines about appeasement. This is unfair to those who opposed appeasement, and incidentally of Chamberlain, IMO.
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