For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.