Great Throughts Treasury

"Liberty and Equality are the twin ideals of American democracy. But they are not the same thing... Many person who would gladly die for liberty are appalled by equality. Many who are devoted to equality are puzzled and even troubled by liberty. Much of the political history of the American nation can be seen as a competition between these two ideals."

"American cities have been filled with unfamiliar people, acting in unfamiliar ways, at once terrified and threatening."

"The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults."