Government By Idea Tends To Take In

For Centuries It Was Never Discovered That Education Was A Function Of The State, And The State Never Attempted To Educate. But When Modern Absolutism Arose, It Laid Claim To Everything On Behalf Of The Sovereign Power....when The Revolutionary Theory Of Government Began To Prevail, And Church And State Found That They Were Educating For Opposite Ends And In A Contradictory Spirit, It Became Necessary To Remove Children Entirely From The Influence Of Religion.

There Is No Worse Heresy Than That The Office Sanctifies The Holder Of It.

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.

It Was From America That The Plain Ideas That Men Ought To Mind Their Business, And That The Nation Is Responsible To Heaven For The Acts Of The State, - Ideas Long Locked In The Breast Of Solitary Thinkers, And Hidden Among Latin Folios, - Burst Forth Like A Conqueror Upon The World They Were Destined To Transform, Under The Title Of The Rights Of Man... And The Principle Gained Ground, That A Nation Can Never Abandon Its Fate To An Authority It Cannot Control.

There Is No Evidence To Support The Belief That Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Ever Questioned Americas Power. He Questioned Only The President's John F. Kennedys Readiness To Use It. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.