What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

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