The Future Is Not A Gift: It

Let Us Dedicate Ourselves To What The Greeks Wrote So Many Years Ago: To Tame The Savageness Of Man And Make Gentle The Life Of This World.

For There Is Another Kind Of Violence, Slower But Just As Deadly, Destructive As The Shot Or The Bomb In The Night. This Is The Violence Of Institutions; Indifference And Inaction And Slow Decay. This Is The Violence That Afflicts The Poor, That Poisons Relations Between Men Because Their Skin Has Different Colors. This Is A Slow Destruction Of A Child By Hunger, And Schools Without Books And Homes Without Heat In The Winter.

At The Heart Of That Western Freedom And Democracy Is The Belief That The Individual Man...is The Touchstone Of Value, And All Society, All Groups, And States, Exist For That Person's Benefit. Therefore The Enlargement Of Liberty For Individual Human Beings Must Be The Supreme Goal And The Abiding Practice Of Any Western Society.

There Are Those That Look At Things The Way They Are, And Ask Why? I Dream Of Things That Never Were, And Ask Why Not?

If Our Constitution Had Followed The Style Of Saint Paul, The First Amendment Might Have Concluded: "but The Greatest Of These Is Speech." In The Darkness Of Tyranny, This Is The Key To The Sunlight. If It Is Granted, All Doors Open. If It Is Withheld, None.