Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often

The First Rule Of Democracy Is To Distrust All Leaders Who Begin To Believe Their Own Publicity.

If We Are To Survive, We Must Have Ideas, Vision, And Courage. These Things Are Rarely Produced By Committees. Everything That Matters In Our Intellectual And Moral Life Begins With An Individual Confronting His Own Mind And Conscience In A Room By Himself.

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

Science And Technology Revolutionize Our Lives, But Memory, Tradition And Myth Frame Our Response. Expelled From Individual Consciousness By The Rush Of Change, History Finds Its Revenge By Stamping The Collective Unconscious With Habits, Values, Expectations, Dreams. The Dialectic Between Past And Future Will Continue To Form Our Lives.

There Is No More Dangerous Thing For A Democracy Than A Foreign Policy Based On Presidential Preventive War.