Excellence Implies Striving For The Highest Standards

The Creative Individual Has The Capacity To Free Himself From The Web Of Social Pressures In Which The Rest Of Us Are Caught. He Is Capable Of Questioning The Assumptions That The Rest Of Us Accept.

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.

Some People May Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them. Very Few Have Excellence Thrust Upon Them. They Achieve It. They Do Not Achieve It Unwittingly, By “doin' What Comes Naturally”; And They Don't Stumble Into It In The Course Of Amusing Themselves. All Excellence Involves Discipline And Tenacity Of Purpose.

When One May Pay Out Over Two Million Dollars To Presidential And Congressional Campaigns, The U.s. Government Is Virtually Up For Sale.

An Excellent Plumber Is Infinitely More Admirable Than An Incompetent Philosopher.