Thomas E. Dewey Quotes
Never let anyone tell you that we can meet our problems in this country only by surrendering to the devices borrowed from the police states. The free system is the only one where we can make a mistake and have a heaven-sent opportunity to cure it. It's the only one where opportunity always exists to improve..
The temptation to erode our freedoms and civil rights in order to easier solve problems has been with us always, especially in times of war and economic bad times. Privacy and rights of expression and association are threatened in War and property and economic rights are threatened in difficult economic times. While some leaders of the two wings of the American political spectrum have advocated have wanted to compromise, leaders of all political parties have reminded us all of fundamental American values and where we have gone astray we have remedied it after.
Thomas E. Dewey, 1902-1971, Governor of New York (Republican), Republican Nominee for President, Presidential Campaign Speech and “Pledge to America,” delivered in Des Moines, Iowa, September 20, 1948
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He was condemning a practice whereby some nations would have freedoms guaranteed by their constitutions or laws, but the totalitarian government would “suspend” the constitutional guarantees in times of “national emergencies.” Yew was in opposition at the time he made this famous statement. 30 years later when he was the Prime Minister, he had a different view. See {585201}.
It is ironic that Pakistan, the creation of Jinnah’s efforts, has to a great extent adopted Sharia (Islamic Law) resulting in severe curtailment of freedom of speech and thought. Professors languish in jail for not teaching the history of Muhammed in the orthodox way, people are sentenced to death for what the local mullahs regard as blasphemy—results which from Jinnah’s point of view were terrible.
Thomas Edmund Dewey was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944 he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, but lost the election to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Harry S. Truman in one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history. Dewey played a large role in winning the Republican presidential nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and helped Eisenhower win the presidential election that year. He also played a large part in the choice of Richard Nixon as the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956.
