-E.E. Cummings
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- “Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes capitalism and the American way of life from the totalitarian statism that is swallowing the rest of the world. All the other social groups—workers, farmers, professional men, scientists, soldiers—exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive self-destruction. But there is no such group as businessmen under a dictatorship. Their place is taken by armed thugs: by bureaucrats and commissars. Businessmen are the symbol of a free society—the symbol of America. If and when they perish, civilization will perish. But if you wish to fight for freedom, you must begin by fighting for its unrewarded, unrecognized, unacknowledged, yet best representatives—the American businessmen.”
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
- “If you want to fight for capitalism, there is only one type of argument that you should adopt…the argument from self-esteem. This means: the argument from man’s right to exist—from man’s inalienable individual right to his own life.”
- “Be kind–remember every one you meet is fighting a battle–everybody’s lonesome.”
- “You cannot run away from a weakness; you must fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”