Sublime

Leadership is most essential during periods of transition, when values and institutions are losing their relevance, and the outlines of a worthy future are in controversy.

Lire un philosophe dont les nazis se sont réclamés, même indûment, oblige à revoir ses positions. Gandhi, par exemple, n'était pas susceptible de dévoiement, ni La Boétie ou Thoreau. Diogène ou Aristippe non plus. Un penseur n'est pas coupable de ce qu'on lui fait dire, surtout quand il a dit le contraire, mais il entre un peu de sa responsabilité,

In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution,

under the protection of the mother-country, and to govern themselves in whatever was not contrary to her laws. This mode of colonization, so remarkably favorable to liberty, was only adopted in New England.

Any election can be the last, or at least the last in the lifetime of the person casting the vote.

When a State is threatened by serious dangers, the people frequently succeeds in selecting the citizens who are the most able to save

Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.

The consequence is that in Europe political tribunals are invested with rights which they are afraid to use, and that the fear of punishing too much hinders them from punishing at

Nothing went in print for a politician unless it was iron-clad.