We Should Not Forget That Our Tradition

And We Wonder What Can Be That 'philosophy Of Education' Which Believes That Young People Can Be Trained To The Duties Of Citizenship By Wrapping Their Minds In Cotton Wool.

History, We Can Confidently Assert, Is Useful In The Sense That Art And Music, Poetry And Flowers, Religion And Philosophy Are Useful. Without It - As With These - Life Would Be Poorer And Meaner; Without It We Should Be Denied Some Of Those Intellectual And Moral Experiences Which Give Meaning And Richness To Life. Surely It Is No Accident That The Study Of History Has Been The Solace Of Many Of The Noblest Minds Of Every Generation.

The American People...have A Stake In Non-conformity. For They Know That The American Genius Is Non-conformist.

Freedom Is Not A Luxury That We Can Indulge In When At Last We Have Security And Prosperity And Enlightenment; It Is, Rather, Antecedent To All Of These, For Without It We Can Have Neither Security Nor Prosperity Nor Enlightenment.

We Should Not Be Surprised That The Founding Fathers Didn't Foresee Everything, When We See That The Current Fathers Hardly Ever Foresee Anything.