SpeechDemocracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Winston Churchill1947★ 9.4
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingThe First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.Hugo BlackEverson v. Board of Education · 1947★ 6.8
Novel · Political literatureIt is not rebellion itself that is noble, but what it demands of you.Albert CamusThe Rebel · 1947★ 5.4
Essay · MagazineThe happy ending is our national belief.Mary McCarthyAmerica the Beautiful · 1947★ 5.3
Congressional hearingAre you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?J. Parnell Thomas1947★ 5.0
Speech · Political speechI believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.Harry Truman1947★ 4.4
Film · Comedy (film) · ComedyWars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!Henri VerdouxMonsieur Verdoux · 1947★ 4.4
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.Dorothy L. Sayers1947★ 3.5
Radio broadcast · SpeechI declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial family to which we all belong.Elizabeth II1947★ 3.5
Interview · MagazineIdeas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John SteinbeckCosmopolitan · 1947★ 1.9
Autobiography and memoirA good plan violenty executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.General George S. Patton1947★ 1.9
Political literatureThe main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.George F. Kennan1947★ 1.8
The nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.Arnold J. Toynbee1947★ 1.8
SpeechOur policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.George C. Marshall1947★ 1.8
Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Christmas · Comedy dramaYeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same. Don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck.AlfredMiracle on 34th Street · 1947★ 1.8
Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Christmas · Comedy dramaYou see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.Kris KringleMiracle on 34th Street · 1947★ 1.8
Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Christmas · Comedy dramaOh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind...and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it.Kris KringleMiracle on 34th Street · 1947★ 1.8
Speech · Political speechLet us not be deceived-we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us not forget this: our unrest is the heart of their success.Bernard Baruch1947★ 1.7
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