The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

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

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

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