Orson Bean : (6)

" I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam ’cause he wouldn’t be accused of being soft on communism. " - Orson Bean

" I think people are afraid to be original. " - Orson Bean

" War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected. " - Orson Bean

" Until I read Neill’s book, ‘Summerhill,’ I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility. " - Orson Bean

" I knew people who were real Communists but never made it onto the blacklist and kept on working. There were also people reputed to be Communists who weren’t. " - Orson Bean

" One of the things I’m proudest of, one year on my refrigerator, I taped a Christmas card from the Republican National Committee and season’s greetings from Gus Hall of the American Communist Party. They both stayed up their months and I’m proud of it. " - Orson Bean