Bearing All This In Mind, We See

Popular Revolt Against A Ruthless, Experienced Modern Dictatorship, Which Enjoys A Monopoly Over Weapons And Communications, ... Is Simply Not A Possibility In The Modern Age.

The United States Cannot Reshape Other Countries In Its Own Image And That, With A Few Exceptions, Its Efforts To Police The World Are Neither In Its Interests Nor Within The Scope Of Its Resources. This Whole Tendency To See Ourselves As The Center Of Political Enlightenment And As Teachers To A Great Part Of The Rest Of The World Strikes Me As Unthought-through, Vainglorious And Undesirable.

...there Is An Optimal Balance, Depending On The Manner Of Man's Life, Between The Density Of Human Population And The Tolerances Of Nature. This Balance, In The Case Of The United States Would Seem To Me To Have Been Surpassed When The American Population Reached, At A Very Maximum, Two Hundred Million People, And Perhaps A Good Deal Less.

We Should Cease To Talk About Vague And Unreal Objectives Such As Human Rights, The Raising Of The Living Standards, And Democratization. The Day Is Not Far Off When We Are Going To Have To Deal In Straight Power Concepts. The Less We Are Then Hampered By Idealistic Slogans, The Better.

Not Only The Studying And Writing Of History But Also The Honoring Of It Both Represent Affirmations Of A Certain Defiant Faith - A Desperate, Unreasoning Faith, If You Will - But Faith Nevertheless In The Endurance Of This Threatened World - Faith In The Total Essentiality Of Historical Continuity.