Brave Men Earn The Right To Shape

The Use Of History As Therapy Means The Corruption Of History As History.

To Say That There Is A Case For Heroes Is Not To Say That There Is A Case For Hero Worship. The Surrender Of Decision, The Unquestioning Submission To Leadership, The Prostration Of The Average Man Before The Great Man -- These Are The Diseases Of Heroism, And They Are Fatal To Human Dignity. History Amply Shows That It Is Possible To Have Heroes Without Turning Them Into Gods. And History Shows, Too, That When A Society, In Flight From Hero Worship, Decides To Do Without Great Men At All, It Gets Into Troubles Of Its Own.

History, In The End, Becomes A Form Of Irony.

The Only President Who Clearly Died Of Overwork Was Polk, And That Was A Long Time Ago. Hoover, Who Worked Intensely And Humorlessly As President, Lived For More Than Thirty Years After The White House; Truman, Who Worked Intensely And Gaily, Lived For Twenty

For History Is To The Nation As Memory Is To The Individual.