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

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

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

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.

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

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.