“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.”
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.