The Passion For Tidiness Is The Historian's

Troubles Impending Always Seem Worse Than Troubles Surmounted, But This Does Not Prove That They Really Are.

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

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.

People Who Claw Their Way To The Top Are Not Likely To Find Very Much Wrong With The System That Enabled Them To Rise.

What Higher Obligation Does A President Have Than To Explain His Intentions To The People And Persuade Them That The Direction He Wishes To Go Is Right?