The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.