Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
Peale, Norman Vincent. The Art of Living. Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1937.
Conservatives, while favoring free markets and a great deal of freedom for business, in his era, also supported government control over personal behavior ranging from women’s rights to control their own bodies, to governing the sexual behavior of consenting adults or censoring publications or using drugs and even including the right to commit suicide.
After the Truman defeat of Republican candidate Thomas Dewey in 1948, Republicans were searching for ways to overcome the poor image that they had with many Americans, and one of the then preeminent advertising companies was assigned the task of analyzing the 1948 failure and making recommendations. This quotation comes from that report. This recommendation defined the Republican approach for the next decades.
Norman Vincent Peale was an American minister and author who is best known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking. He served as the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York, from 1932 until 1984, leading a Reformed Church in America congregation.
