Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.