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

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

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

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

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

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

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