Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. Elmer Davis More Quotes by Elmer Davis More Quotes From Elmer Davis This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis veterans-daycouragecountry This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. Elmer Davis republiccowardindia The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. Elmer Davis fearmotivationalinspirational We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age. Elmer Davis dogrunningmen When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. Elmer Davis telling-the-truthhalfmen This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. Elmer Davis errorsmenthinking One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun Elmer Davis fieldsdoneamerica The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat." Elmer Davis identificationcatwould-be All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost. Elmer Davis costwantpeople This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription. Elmer Davis novembervotevotingbelieve Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side. Elmer Davis hallsideslaveryfound The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded. Elmer Davis advertisingaggressivenewspolice It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons. Elmer Davis newspaperviewcuriousmind New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended 'The Times' almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together. Elmer Davis newimportantrealtogether Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against. Elmer Davis enemiesfreedomfightingideas We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it. Elmer Davis truthwinningwarpeople It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War. Elmer Davis greatsinglewarworld There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time. Elmer Davis neverexperiencetimemen You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him. Elmer Davis loseyoulosswar
