Some People Strengthen The Society Just By

We Cannot Have Islands Of Excellence In A Sea Of Slovenly Indifference To Standards.

One Of My Less Pleasant Chores When I Was Young Was To Read The Bible From One End To The Other. Reading The Bible Straight Through Is At Least 70 Percent Discipline, Like Learning Latin. But The Good Parts Are, Of Course, Simply Amazing. God Is An Extremely Uneven Writer, But When He's Good, Nobody Can Touch Him.

We Have To Face The Fact That Most Men And Women Out There Are More Stale Than They Know, More Bored Than They Care To Admit.

Tax Reduction Has An Almost Irresistible Appeal To The Politician, And It Is No Doubt Also Gratifying To The Citizen. It Means More Dollars In His Pocket, Dollars That He Can Spend If Inflation Doesn't Consume Them First. But Dollars In His Pocket Won't Buy Him Clean Streets Or An Adequate Police Force Or Good Schools Or Clean Air And Water. Handing Money Back To The Private Sector In Tax Cuts And Starving The Public Sector Is A Formula For Producing Richer And Richer Consumers In Filthier And Filthier Communities. If We Stick To That Formula We Shall End Up In Affluent Misery.

Whoever I Am, Or Whatever I Am Doing, Some Kind Of Excellence Is Within My Reach.