According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

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

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

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.

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.

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

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