All Wars Are Popular For The First

Self-righteousness In Retrospect Is Easy--also Cheap.

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.

There Is Far Less To The Presidency, In Terms Of Essential Activity, Than Meets The Eye.

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

I Trust That A Graduate Student Some Day Will Write A Doctoral Essay On The Influence Of The Munich Analogy On The Subsequent History Of The Twentieth Century. Perhaps In The End He Will Conclude That The Multitude Of Errors Committed In The Name Of Munich May Exceed The Original Error Of 1938.