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...more important than the "ultimate" victory of a total program. ... It seems to me unwise to jeopardize the chances for immediate piecemeal gains by staking everything on one effort for fundamental revolutionary change. . . . Te be resigned to the contingency of defeat, but to fight like hell for the best possible chance in every alternative, is what the good life in action means. To triumph in a struggle at the cost of one's fundamental values is the height of vulgarity-and futility...
...been when Morrison was Minister of Home Security in the War Cabinet. Prime Minister Clement Attlee brought the news to him in a hospital where Morrison has lain for three weeks waiting for a blood clot in his leg to dissolve. Said Attlee: "This will just make everything a hell of a lot more difficult...
...Lord, please don't let any American newspaper people ever forget the statement of Wilbur F. Storey, setting forth the aims of the old Chicago Times in 1861: 'It is a newspaper's duty to print the news, and raise hell.' Amen...
Victor's Spoils. The election brought the socialist weekly an embarrassing wealth of ministerial connections, and at first it leaned over backward to avoid taking advantage of it. Then, says Jennie Lee, "we said 'the hell with it'; anything we got by our own efforts we'd print, and that's what we do now." Now that they are breaking even, they pay their contributors a guinea a column. Says one editor: "It varies only for our really distinguished ones, who are allowed (as H. G. Wells and G. B. Shaw were) to write...
...hell & brimstone fundamentalist, not to be confused with Softshell - or modern - Baptists, or the Six-Principle, Seventh-Day, Particular, Truthful, Lying, Free-Will, No Effort, Duck River or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...