Monday, February 14, 2011

E.B. White | 1952 | This is Bad


We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. This is bad. I think the most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a communist.
—E.B. White, April 27, 1952, Letters of E.B. White,  p 328

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