Great Throughts Treasury

"“Self-government” is primarily a personal morality in America, not a political philosophy... Thus does our individualism reduce social problems, always, to the level of private morality, to things outside the scope of legislation."

"Wilson said that America’s doughboys fought for the Fourteen Points. Roosevelt said the GI was fighting for the Four Freedoms. Johnson and Humphrey sent men out to die for the planting of dams in Vietnam. Nixon preaches a war of generosity. Each time we have fought in this century, our leaders have denied that we did it for ourselves."

"Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth that in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?"

"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."

"Only the winners decide what were war crimes. "

"Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal."

"Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before l arge television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings."