Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

All awards must be used exclusively in the United States (not applicable for travel or study abroad). Luce's play Child of the Morning about the murder of a saintly girl (1951) received mixed reviews in its Massachusetts tryouts and never made it to Broadway. She had served only four days from April 28 to May 1 1959 and never left American soil.

In her youth however Clare Boothe Luce flirted briefly with the Democratic liberalism of Franklin D. Politically Luce was a Republican who became steadily more conservative in later life.