Henry May wrote, regarding the Nazi “tightening of the screws” in Germany:
"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for the one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. . . .
In between c…
Henry May wrote, regarding the Nazi “tightening of the screws” in Germany:
"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for the one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. . . .
In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. . . .
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy. Thus you may find that “drawing the line” becomes very difficult.
The government's most recent step is too small a step beyond the previous one to get excited about."
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Henry May wrote, regarding the Nazi “tightening of the screws” in Germany:
"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for the one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. . . .
In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. . . .
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy. Thus you may find that “drawing the line” becomes very difficult.
The government's most recent step is too small a step beyond the previous one to get excited about."
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
- Abraham Lincoln
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