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Call to Greatness, ch. 3 "America's Burden" (1954) - Stevenson, Adlai | WIST Quotations
Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyalty -- so, obviously, thinking must be stopped. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom. Adapted from his "A…