The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.