And, of course, journalists and commentators are apt to deal with me personally by saying that I am senile. The joulnalists in the United States, especially, do this since for years I have been worrying over the increase of violence in that country and most of my recent writing has been very vehemently against their Government's warlike policies. This method of diminishing my effectiveness alarms and angers my friends and affronts me, but, from the point of these who differ with me, I dare say it is about their only retort. In any case, if the charge is true; I fail to see why anyone troubles to remark on my babblings.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3 chap. 4
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