Storm Center (1956)

Brian Keith: Paul Duncan

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• Martha Lockridge : Whatever was the issue? A stubborn woman was fired. Your council blew itself up with civic virtue. The city got something to buzz about. I got a better job. You got a platform.

  Paul Duncan : You make it sound like a grab bag.

  Martha Lockridge : Well, what do you think it was? Patriotism?

• Paul Duncan : We can't take time out to investigate every little wrinkle on every little problem and be kind to stubborn old ladies to boot. Sure, some innocent people are going to get hurt. Well, that's too bad. Right now that's the way it's gotta be unless we all wanna wind up in the soup.

  Stacey Martin : That's exactly right!

  Judge Robert Ellerbee : That's exactly wrong. That's communist talk. That's just the way they do things. Let the innocent cook with the guilty. To hell with whom we hurt on the way as long as we get where we're going. Let me tell you something. I'm not afraid of communism; or of a communist book in the library. But I am afraid of that kind of talk. It scares the living life out of me. It's one thing I forgot, Duncan, for a while. I forgot what country I live in. Where I live, the safety of any one person, any stubborn old lady, is the sacred concern of every decent citizen. And I hope to God I never forget that again. Never again!