To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.