The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

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

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.