Elie Wiesel Quotes
Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
Wiesel, Elie. Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends. Translated by Marion Wiesel, Random House, 1976.
Holmes was a young soldier at the battle. This quote is also sometimes attributed to General Horatio Wright, who was present at the battle and actually got the President down to safety, but we regard it as unlikely that a sophisticated, mature general would have addressed the President so rudely
In early America, the political parties had their own newspapers where “truth” was not an important journalistic virtue. Red scares and other fears of foreign conspiracies are as old as our nation. In 1798 the Federalists accused Vice President Thomas Jefferson, among others, of being in contact with the foreign conspirators and printed details of a "manufactured" plot to massacre the citizens of Philadelphia in one of their controlled newspapers. The nation was so alarmed that the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress a few months later. These were probably the greatest infringements on American civil liberties in our history.
After the Korean War there was a complex web of economic controls in place. Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey led the cabinet faction urging rapid removal of the controls while others argued the opposite position. The President went along with his Treasury Secretary:
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
