TYRANNY OF SLOGANS
“Emotion without the temper of reason breeds intolerance." said exPresident Hoover, in a recent speech. “Intolerance breeds intellectual tyranny. From it we get declamation, not honest debate. We are afflicted with slogans: 'war mongers.’ ‘appeasers,’ ‘pacifists’ and what not. Slogans are no basis for deciding the fate of our country. They do not make for national unity in time of danger. It is easier to regiment a people than to unregiment them. They can bo deprived of their liberties by an ukase, a command or an administrative order. It is a long and painful climb bad: to freedom.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 3
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101TYRANNY OF SLOGANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 3
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