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.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

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

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

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

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

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.