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1944

★ 9.1

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl · 1944

★ 7.4

Play

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

1944

★ 7.1

Newspaper

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

1944

★ 7.0

Political literature

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

1944

★ 4.4

Letter

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Albert Camus

1944

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C.S. Lewis

1944

★ 3.6

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Raymond Chandler

The Simple Art of Murder · 1944

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1944

★ 3.6

Psychological literature

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Carl Jung

1944

★ 3.5

Essay

What, then, does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.

Mary McLeod Bethune

1944

★ 3.5

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

1944

★ 3.5

Political literature

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Reinhold Niebuhr

1944

★ 3.5

Speech · Military speech

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.

General George S. Patton

1944

★ 3.5

Speech

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

Learned Hand

1944

★ 3.5

Song · Great American songbook

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above, Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love, Don't fence me in.

Cole Porter

Don't Fence Me In · 1944

★ 3.5

Speech

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.

Learned Hand

1944

★ 3.5

Radio broadcast · Speech

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired trough his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

Pope Pius XII

1944

★ 3.5

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net.

Franklin P. Adams

1944

★ 3.4

Personal journal

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl · 1944

★ 3.1

Novel

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

No Mean City · 1944

★ 2.7

Personal journal

I want to go on living even after death!

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl · 1944

★ 2.4

Speech · Political speech

Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1944

★ 2.1

Psychological literature

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

Carl Jung

1944

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

1944

★ 1.9

Magazine

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E.B. White

1944

★ 1.9

Political literature · Economic literature

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

Friedrich Hayek

The Road to Serfdom · 1944

★ 1.9

Essay

If we simply accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... That smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary McLeod Bethune

1944

★ 1.9

Radio broadcast

People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This landing is part of the concerted United Nations plan for the liberation of Europe, made in conjuction with our great Russian allies... I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us. Keep your faith staunch-our arms are resolute-together we shall achieve victory.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1944

★ 1.9

Film · Film noir · Crime drama (film) · Crime drama

Murder's never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are involved it's usually sooner.

Barton Keyes

Double Indemnity · 1944

★ 1.9

Essay

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

E.M. Forster

1944

★ 1.8

Political literature

The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal.

Gunnar Myrdal

1944

★ 1.8

Speech · Political speech

The policy is obliteration, openly acknowledged. This is not a justifiable act of war.

George Bell

1944

★ 1.8

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin P. Adams

1944

★ 0.9