human
Dad, he said,
gpt
She wasn't, said Fabius Waite.
human
Senator, this is mighty ticklish, and it will grow more ticklish. This one act can be smoothed over, but many recurrences of it cannot be smoothed over. Isn't there some machinery to set afoot forbidding American citizens to cross the ocean? That would do it.
gpt
I wouldn't care to introduce such a resolution, said the Senator,
human
We've a _right_ to travel, Potter said, hotly.
gpt
Didn't we fight a war about that once? You don't mean to say, Dad, that you actually would have this country admit that it was afraid to claim its rights.... The world would laugh at us.
human
Let it, said his father.
gpt
Another year or two of this war and this nation will top them all. We'll be the financial rulers of the world. We're getting there now, and nothing must happen to set us back.
human
And the world will despise us, Potter said, bitterly. He was beginning to see more clearly now. He paused. This attitude of mind he was witnessing could not be common to all the people. He would not believe it.
gpt
Dad, think _bigger_. You men are wrong. You can't head this off. It means _war_.... It's got to mean war. And war means armies and cannon and shell--and aeroplanes. We've got to have them all. Think, Dad, and you'll realize it.... Take a telegraph blank, Dad, and write the President. You can help with this plant; every other plant like it can help. Wire the President that this plant is at the disposal of the country for any use the country can put it to.... Tell him you're with him. Tell him you can make guns or shrapnel-cases or motors for him as well as for England or France or Russia--as you are making them.... And aeroplanes. We'll need thousands of them.... Give that job to me, Dad. I know aeroplanes--
human
You know mixed drinks and chorus girls and traffic cops,
gpt
You won't do it?
human
Don't be a fool.