Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often

Expelled From Individual Consciousness By The Rush Of Change, History Finds Its Revenge By Stamping The Collective Unconsciousness With Habits And Values.

All Wars Are Popular For The First 30 Days.

Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often It Is Those Who Can Remember The Past Who Are Condemned To Repeat It.

For Most Americans The Constitution Had Become A Hazy Document, Cited Like The Bible On Ceremonial Occasions But Forgotten In The Daily Transactions Of Life.

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.