In America, Communities Existed Before Governments. There

Beware Of Charisma . . . Representative Men; Was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 Phrase For The Great Men In A Democracy . . . Is There Some Common Quality Among These Representative Men Who Have Been Most Successful As Our Leaders? I Call It The Need To Be Authentic-or, As Our Dictionaries Tell Us, Conforming To Fact And Therefore Worthy Of Trust, Reliance Or Belief. While The Charismatic Has An Uncanny Outside Source Of Strength, The Authentic Is Strong Because He Is What He Seems To Be.

Since The Creator Had Made The Facts Of The After-life Inaccessible To Man, He Must Not Have Required That Man Understand Death In Order To Live Fruitfully.

Freedom Means The Opportunity To Be What We Never Thought We Would Be.

God Is The Celebrity Author Of The World's Best Seller. We Have Made God Into The Biggest Celebrity Of All, To Contain Our Own Emptiness.

American Civilization, From Its Beginnings, Had Combined A Dogmatic Confidence In The Future With A Naive Puzzlement Over What The Future Might Bring.