Alas, Babylon

by Pat Frank

tolerant argumentation that never resorts to violence and allows for the slow changing of opinions,

To someone who has never felt a bomb, bomb is only a word.

Nations are like people. When they grow old and rich and fat they get conservative. They exhaust their energy trying to keep things the way they are—and that’s against nature.

Young men because we’ve got to be a young country again.

And the facts, as he had publicly stated, were that Russia intended to defeat the United States by scaring us into an inflationary, socialistic depression, and not by tossing missiles at us.

When you examined the facts judicially, and asked which would provide the greatest good for the greatest number, there could be only one answer.

For instance, the prices paid for high office. When it became common to spend a million dollars to elect senators from moderately populous states, I think that should have been a warning to us.

most lures are designed to catch fishermen rather than fish.