Quotes from Norman Thomas

I always get more applause than votes.

I walk where I choose to walk.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

I'd rather see America save her soul than her face.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

When asked what his greatest life achievement was, Norman Thomas replied: "The intellectual theft of every one of my ideas by the Democratic Party."

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.