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  • Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

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    "The Thud of Ideas," The New Yorker, September 23, 1950.

  • The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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    E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.200, Cornell University Press
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E. B. White

  • Born: July 11, 1899
  • Died: October 1, 1985
  • Occupation: Writer
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