It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

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.