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No portion of a nation, which in all its long history had been dedicated to individualism, to the proposition that there should be the least amount of law to govern the greatest number of people, would submit to being arbitrarily and indefinitely shut up in houses and in cellars, in subways and in shelters, forbidden the comforts of radios, of television, of refrigerators and iced drinks, of cups of coffee, and of slugs of whisky or glasses of beer.
“I would charge all of you to bear in mind that all societies exist through the efforts and work of their members and no society can exist where the members expect to receive without giving.
(only gossip is urgent; news has a solid and lasting quality)
Our greatest national output will be abject apologies to anyone who says we’ve trodden on their toes.”
