Leaders Develop Their Styles As They Interact

For Every Talent That Poverty Has Stimulated It Has Blighted A Hundred.

Political Extremism Involves Two Prime Ingredients: An Excessively Simple Diagnosis Of The World's Ills, And A Conviction That There Are Identifiable Villains Back Of It All.

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.

The [nonprofit] Sector Is The Natural Home Of Nonmajoritarian Impulses, Movements And Values. It Comfortably Harbors Innovators, Maverick Movements, Groups Which Feel They Must Fight For Their Place In The Sun, And Critics Of Both Liberal Conservative Persuasion.

Americans Have Always Believed That-within The Law-all Kinds Of People Should Be Allowed To Take The Initiative In All Kinds Of Activities. And Out Of That Pluralism Has Come Virtually All Of Our Creativity. Freedom Is Real Only To The Extent That There Are Diverse Alternatives.