[PW] ? Quotations from Swarthmore Alumni (Quotation Query #652)

[swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com]

Here are a few:

Carl Milton Levin 

"We dare not surrender to our opponents 
the title of'moral.'" 

"We must insist always that our positions 
are no less moral than theirs,..." "Indeed, 
we believe that ours is really the moral 
position." 

27 June 1981  
Tyrone Daily Herald  
Tyrone, Pennsylvania

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John Theurer Diebold

[On the Stock Exchange which Diebold refered to as... 
"completely obsolete, and like a Babylonian market 
place."]

"It's dramatic, yes, with ticker tape, scraps of paper and 
messenger scurrying around..." "But there's no excuse for 
it. After all they're only exchanging information. A 
computer could handle the whole operation. Brokers would 
simply dial orders into the machine and it would buy or 
sell at a specified time and price, and then notify both 
parties." 

8 May 1954 
The Evening Standard, 
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
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"I think the result will be that people will work 
less time and produce more goods and services...” 

14 Sep 1954  
Evening Independent  
Massillon, Ohio
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[Appearing before a House subcommittee in Washington]

"Automation holds no threat to our economy. By giving us 
enormously increased productivity, on the contrary, it 
promises to invigorate the economy." 

14 Oct 1955
Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque, New Mexico

"Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote: 
For an article I am writing about famous quotations by Swarthmore alumni, I would welcome suggestions of quotes by any of the following people:

Michael Dukakis (Presidential candidate)
James Michener (novelist)
David Baltimore (biologist)
Peter Schickele ( = P.D.Q. Bach)
John Diebold (computer visionary)
A. Mitchell Palmer (Attorney General)
Robert P. George (conservative political philosopher)
Carl Levin (Senator from Michigan)
Robert D. Putnam (author of Bowling Alone)
Molly Yard (president of NOW)
Jonathan Franzen (author of The Corrections)
Victor Navasky (publisher of Nation, author)
Drew Pearson (journalist)
NOrman Rush (novelist)

Fred Shapiro




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