Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew of no faster way of producing communists than by making martyrs out of the handful of communists we now have. Forbidding them to speak . . . would be accepting communist practices in the name of Americanism. Whatever may have happened elsewhere, Harvard still believes in freedom and the American...
...light of this background, the recent statement was a very encouraging one. At a time when academic freedom in particular, and freedom of speech in general, are taking a bad beating because of the current wave of anti-communist hysteria, Dean Bender's strong re-affirmation of faith in the free exchange of ideas is a welcome reassurance that there are those who will not let themselves be brow-beaten by J. Parnell Thomas--or Fulton Lewis...
...Democracy is God's way of life," Helen Maude Cam said last night at a meeting held in the Rhinelander Foundation. Professor Cam, Samuel Zemurray, Jr., and Deris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor History, said that in this world God has given us the freedom of choice between good and evil. We know what the laws of God are. If we fail because we break His laws we have only ourserves to blame. Such is democracy, Cam concluded...
...forced the British people to live in a fool's purgatory upon the generous grants of free enterprise, capitalist America . . . If we are to earn our daily bread in the world, it can only be through the strongest possible individual effort and ingenuity arising from conditions of freedom and fair play...
...least they liked it better than what they thought the Tories would give them. As the anti-Socialist Economist recently said: "Instead of standing forth as the champions of wise and vigorous government [the Tories] have allowed themselves, by talking in generalities about abstract principles such as 'freedom' and 'enterprise,' to be represented as the captious remnant of a bygone social order. . . They have treated the rise of Socialism as an aberration from the normal British way of life, instead of recognizing that the Socialist ideal of the welfare state is very closely in tune with...