There Is A Mental Fear, Which Provokes

There Is A Mental Fear, Which Provokes Others Of Us To See The Images Of Witches In A Neighbor's Yard And Stampedes Us To Burn Down This House. And There Is A Creeping Fear Of Doubt, Doubt Of What We Have Been Taught, Of The Validity Of So Many Things We Had Long Since Taken For Granted To Be Durable And Unchanging. It Has Become More Difficult Than Ever To Distinguish Black From White, Good From Evil, Right From Wrong.

Most Of Them [american Politicians] Are Men Of Undoubted Charm, Ability, And Incredible Energy, And Yet Too Often They Lack Purpose Or Appetite For Anything Beyond Their Own Careers. With Few Notable Exceptions, They Are Simply Men Who Want To Be Loved.

I Am Seized With An Abiding Fear Regarding What These Two Instruments Are Doing To Our Society, Our Culture And Our Heritage. Our History Will Be What We Make It. And If There Are Any Historians About Fifty Or A Hundred Years From Now, And There Should Be Preserved The Kinescopes For One Week Of All Three Networks, They Will There Find Recorded In Black And White, Or Color, Evidence Of Decadence, Escapism And Insulation From The Realities Of The World In Which We Live.

We Must Not Confuse Dissent With Disloyalty. 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.

Most Truths Are So Naked That People Feel Sorry For Them And Cover Them Up, At Least A Little Bit.