May None But Honest And Wise Men

Any Nation That Expects To Be Ignorant And Free," Jefferson Said, "expects What Never Was And Never Will Be." And If The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated In America Continues To Grow As It Is In Our Time, As Fast As Or Faster Than The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor, The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated Is Going To Be Of Greater Consequence And The More Serious Threat To Our Way Of Life. We Must Not, By Any Means, Misunderstand That.

A Nation That Forgets Its Past Can Function No Better Than An Individual With Amnesia.

History Is Not The Story Of Heroes Entirely. It Is Often The Story Of Cruelty And Injustice And Shortsightedness. There Are Monsters, There Is Evil, There Is Betrayal. That's Why People Should Read Shakespeare And Dickens As Well As History ~~ They Will Find The Best, The Worst, The Height Of Noble Attainment And The Depths Of Depravity.

The Evil Of Technology Was Not Technology Itself, Lindbergh Came To See After The War, Not In Airplanes Or The Myriad Contrivances Of Modern Technical Igenuity, But In The Extent To Which They Can Distance Us From Our Better Moral Nature, Or Sense Of Personal Accountability.

The Pull, The Attraction Of History, Is In Our Human Nature. What Makes Us Tick? Why Do We Do What We Do? How Much Is Luck The Deciding Factor?