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...Chairman White democracy was not only legislative forms and procedures : "In every human heart are two conflicting forces, the altruistic urge and the egoistic instinct . . . the yearning to give and the desire to get. . . . [If] in any human unit, be it home or community . . . men are more kindly, decent, and reasonable than mean . . . then that human unit, large or small, is democratic. . . . But if . . . [it] is greedy, if it is suspicious of everything without and credulous of everything with in . . . turns to force to hold its place and win its way, then that social order . . . must turn to a tyrant...
...more today, one very short and then a long one. We got quite blase. . . . We giggled and talked, and it was almost dawn before we got to bed. Nobody came to breakfast before half past nine. Don't for goodness sake get rattled, the staff has been awfully decent and there has been absolutely no panic. They all look absolute screeches, especially the fat ones in tight slacks, and J. getting on her tin hat over her curlers! It has altogether been great...
Worst of all, if France gave up her Navy in return for a decent peace, Axis sea power would exceed Britain...
Vassar's Dean C. Mildred Thompson told graduates that real peace could be attained only if they responded to "decent emotions of righteous anger against brutal aggression and pity for the oppressed and the suffering...
...will that as a political power he shall be destroyed from the face of the earth, and that every item of our strength and every bit of our courage and all of our resources we dedicate to the honorable cause of his destruction as the arch foe of decent...