Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposed to prohibition. I was opposed to it because I thought there would be great difficulty in its enforcement, it being more or less like a sumptuary law. Second, I was opposed to it because I thought it too greatly enlarged the power of the central government, already too large; and, third, I was opposed to it because, introduced into national politics, we would never as long as it remained the subject of political discussion settle any other issue clearly and emphatically by the judgment of all the people, because some extremes on both sides would insist on thrusting prohibition...
...those were good reasons. At least I thought so. But the vote was against me and those who thought with me, as the people before have indicated that they sometimes differed with me. They did then. Now, as all good citizens should, I claim to play the game. . . . The rules of the game of popular government are that all living under that government must obey. It is not patriotic, it is not sportsmanlike to evade or disobey...
...Thought, Fear, Hope...
After reading your article on "Mental Hygiene" in the Nov. 19 issue, I am moved to express a thought-a fear-and a hope...
...thought is admiration for the terse, true statement of the most important movement of our time-the intelligent preventive as well as curative treatment of mental disease...