Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth GalbraithAnd there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.
John Kenneth GalbraithTags: history memoirs u-s-politics
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
John Kenneth GalbraithTags: memoirs u-s-politics
War remains the decisive human failure.
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