“As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.”

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

From what we’ve heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They’re positive. They’re good. He thinks he’s got a good vision for America.

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.