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...nevertheless sees the problem. "Corporate officialdoms," he says, "are helpless and barren?the parties, bureaus, departments, cabinets, commissions?barren because of the inner cancellation of each other's certitudes. The composite program, prudentially polished, has every virtue in it but life. Where there is no personal vision, the people perish." And the late Whitney Griswold put it thus: "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps...
...fundamental principles.... These Americans hold, with me, that the preservation or maintenance of state sovereignty is indispensable to the preservation of human rights. We are convinced that once the right of a state to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over a local problem is lost, human rights, liberty, and freedom will perish...
...more fundamental than that power seeks always to increase. I believe that the maintenance of states' rights is indispensable to the preservation of human rights--that once the right of a sovereign state to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over a local problem is lost, human rights, liberty, and freedom will perish in the catastrophe. The people of all communities, cities, counties and states must either rule or they will be ruled...
...major items traded between them. Since under the GATT convention, these cuts would also be extended to other nations, the effect would be to open Britain to a freer flow of trade and force the inefficient manufacturers who are endangering Britain's economic health to modernize or perish...
...Nikita Khrushchev remembered it last week, Stalin warned his colleagues: "If I die, you will all perish; the imperialists will strangle you." But, added Khrushchev with somewhat muted optimism, "We aren't dead; we are living and working and even pressing on imperialism...