The Leading Cause Of Death Is Birth.

Recollections Of Early Childhood Bear Comparison To Fairy Tales, And ... Youth Remains An Unknown Country To Whose Bourn No Traveler Returns Except As The Agent Of A Foreign Power.

Leadership Consists Not In Degrees Of Technique But In Traits Of Character; It Requires Moral Rather Than Athletic Or Intellectual Effort, And It Imposes On Both Leader And Follower Alike The Burdens Of Self-restraint.

Power Broken Into A Thousand Pieces Can Be Hidden And Disowned. If No Individual Or Institution Possesses The Authority To Act Without Of Everybody Else In The Room, Then Nobody Is At Fault If Anything Goes Wrong.

The Gentlemen Who Wrote The Constitution Were As Suspicious Of Efficient Government As They Were Wary Of Democracy, A "turbulence And A Folly" That Was Associated With The Unruly Ignorance Of An Urban Mob.

We Need Not Seek Our Own Best Selves, And In The Meantime We Inoculate Ourselves Against The Viruses Of Age And Idealism, Which, As The Advertising Agencies Well Know, Depress Sales And Sour The Feasts Of Consumption.