If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.