The Public Official Must Pick His Way

Today In America Vast Concourses Of Youth Are Flocking To Our Colleges, Eager For Something, Just What They Do Not Know.

Reputation, Like A Face, Is The Symbol Of Its Possessor And Creator, And Another Can Use It Only As A Mask.

The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit That Is Not Quite Sure It Is Right.

That Community Is Already In The Process Of Dissolution Where Each Man Begins To Eye His Neighbor As A Possible Enemy, Where Non-conformity With The Accepted Creed, Political As Well As Religious, Is A Mark Of Disaffection; Where Denunciation, Without Specification Or Backing, Takes The Place Of Evidence; Where Orthodoxy Chokes Freedom Of Dissent; Where Faith In The Eventual Supremacy Of Reason Has Become So Timid That We Dare Not Enter Our Convictions In The Open Lists, To Win Or Lose.

If We Are To Keep Our Democracy, There Must Be One Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice.