“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
