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

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

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

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.

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