For I can assure you that in any war, even if it does not become a world war, I do not think there will be a victor who can do much. There may be one less badly off than the other. One side or the other may have sued first for peace. The destruction will be so great, the moral erosion of the experience will be so great, that it is idle to think you'll find liberty, walking serenely among the corpses of the dead and the agonies of the dying. There are other things to do than that if we want democracy and freedom to live; there have to be other things to do than that.


Debate with Barry Goldwater, University of Arizona campus, Tucson, Arizona, November 1961

Norman Thomas Quotes

For I can assure you that in any war, even if it does not become a world war, I do not think there will be a victor who can do much. There may be one ...

For I can assure you that in any war, even if it does not become a world war, I do not think there will be a victor who can do much. There may be one ...

For I can assure you that in any war, even if it does not become a world war, I do not think there will be a victor who can do much. There may be one ...

For I can assure you that in any war, even if it does not become a world war, I do not think there will be a victor who can do much. There may be one ...