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Topic |
| Inspirational | People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. |
| Leadership | The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. |
| Leadership | 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. |
| Leadership | The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann. |
| Morality | The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary. |
| Opposition | The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. |
| Perspective | When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. |
| Government | The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd. |
| Government | For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. |
| Government | ..the Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively. |
| Government | 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. |
| Government | The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. |
| Government | The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. |
| Psychological Subjects | Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. |
| Psychological Subjects | Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. |
| Purpose | Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. |
| Religion | At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature , in a universe , after a history , the rules of the code apply. |
| Society | The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash. |
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