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Eric Johnston
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“The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.”
Eric Johnston (1896–1963) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Forbes, vol. 52, no. 6 (September 15, 1943), p. 38
“The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an over-abundance of bigness is not necessarily better.”
Eric Johnston (1896–1963) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 24, no. 5 (December 15, 1957), p. 150
“Beaten paths are for beaten men.”
Eric Johnston (1896–1963) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Forbes, vol. 83, no. 4 (February 15, 1959), p. 70
“Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.”
Eric Johnston (1896–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in John W. Gardner; Francesca Gardner Reese (eds.) Know or Listen to Those who Know (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1975), p. 215
“We are too mealy-mouthed about the basic principle of our economic system. We have been intimidated by all the tirades against "bloated capitalists" and "swollen profits." We fear that the word capitalism is unpopular. So we take refuge in a nebulous phrase and talk about the "Free Enterprise System." And we even run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the "American Way of Life." ... We stand at a solemn parting of the ways. Our business leaders and our labor leaders want freedom. No American wants slavery. But what is the price of freedom? I say it is the capital with which to operate capitalism. The word is capitalism.”
Eric Johnston (1896–1963) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Your Stake in Capitalism", in Reader's Digest (February, 1943); repr. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 95, no. 167 (February 19, 1943), p. 6c. Quoted by Daniel A. Reed in the U.S. House of Representatives (February 2, 1943…