The Glory and the Dream Quotes

“Above all, beware the crowd! The crowd only feels; it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams—but it never builds.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“when I call him a son of a bitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“Whenever you hear a prominent American called a ‘Fascist,’” Hearst declared, “you can usually make up your mind that the man is simply a LOYAL CITIZEN WHO STANDS UP FOR AMERICANISM.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“asked if fascism would come to America, Huey Long said, “Sure, but here it will be called anti-fascism”—”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream

“In wartime the streams of history merge. Each of the republic’s constituencies sees the struggle as a whole because everyone shares it and even participates in it, if only vicariously. Afterward the currents divide again. Insularity returns.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream

“Violence had brought the United States independence, freed the slaves, and first conquered the West and then tamed it. Now it had raised working men up from the industrial cellar. Labor might forget that and turn conservative, but for liberals to deny other oppressed groups the right to revolt would prove impossible. Thus were the seeds of later anguish planted in innocence, even in idealism.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“Social security was the most emotional issue that session. Republicans protested that if the administration bill were passed, children would no longer support their parents, the payroll tax would discourage workmen so much that they would quit their jobs, and that, taken all in all, the measure would remove the “romance of life.”
― William R. Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“political harvest of this heedless divisiveness, this feuding, this name-calling, this miasmic preoccupation with bitter negative controversy within the Republican Administration?… The effect of this new kind of “mess” is to exhibit the Republican Government as quarrelsome, unproductive and legislatively nearly impotent.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream

“Whenever you hear a prominent American called a ‘Fascist,’” Hearst declared, “you can usually make up your mind that the man is simply a LOYAL CITIZEN WHO STANDS UP FOR AMERICANISM.” Beginning in November 1934, Hearst sent reporters disguised as students into college classrooms, to trap teachers in unconventional comments. Nobody wanted to change the American economic system, he said, except for “a few incurable malcontents, a few sapheaded college boys, and a few unbalanced college professors.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“The Jap,” as MacArthur called the enemy—nearly everyone else called Japanese “Nips,” short for “Dai Nippon,” the”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“oceanography, meteorology, and upper-atmosphere physics,”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“bouffant coiffures.”
― William R. Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972