From: "David M", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Is a thought a dangerous thing?
I know it's not entirely in context but Winston Churchill had this to say
and it is as well that we take time occasionally to remember the "Lions
Roar."
Regards,
David.
.............You see these dictators on their pedestals surrounded by the
bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They are
afraid of words, of thoughts. Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at
home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them.
A little mouse, a little tiny mouse of thought appears in the room and even
the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to
bar out thoughts and words. They are afraid of the working of the human
mind. A state of society where men cannot speak their mind, where children
denounce their parents to the police, where a businessman or small shop
keeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinions,
such a state cannot long endure if it is brought continually into contact
with the healthy outside world. The light of civilised progress with its
tolerances and co-operation, with its dignities and joys has often been
blotted out but I hold that we have now, at last, got far enough ahead of
barbarism to control it and to avert it if only we realise what is afoot and
make up our minds in good time.
Is this a call to war? Does anyone pretend that preparations for resistance
against aggression amounts to the unleashing of war? I declare that it is
the sole guarantee of peace, the finest and the surest prospect of peace!
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