The Very Discovery Of The New World

The Broad Liberal Objective Is A Balanced And Flexible "mixed Economy," Thus Seeking To Occupy That Middle Ground Between Capitalism And Socialism Whose Viability Has So Long Been Denied By Both Capitalists And Socialists.

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.

Liberalism Regards All Absolutes With Profound Skepticism, Including Both Moral Imperatives And Final Solutions... Insistence Upon Any Particular Solution Is The Mark Of An Ideologue.

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.

History Is Full Of Surprises.