World Communism Is Like [a] Malignant Parasite

The Very Concept Of History Implies The Scholar And The Reader. Without A Generation Of Civilized People To Study History, To Preserve Its Records, To Absorb Its Lessons And Relate Them To Its Own Problems, History, Too, Would Lose Its Meaning.

It Is Obviously Easier, For The Short Run, To Draw Cheap Labor From Adjacent Pools Of Poverty...than To Find It Among One's Own People. And To The Millions Of Such Prospective Immigrants From Poverty To Prosperity, There Is, Rightly Or Wrongly, No Place That Looks More Attractive Than The United States. Given Its Head, And Subject To No Restrictions, This Pressure Will Find Its Termination Only When The Levels Of Overpopulation And Poverty In The United States Are Equal To Those Of The Countries From Which These People Are Now So Anxious To Escape.

There Is More Respect To Be Won In The Opinion Of This World By A Resolute And Courageous Liquidation Of Unsound Positions Than By The Most Stubborn Pursuit Of Extravagant Or Unpromising Objectives.

Not Only The Studying And Writing Of History But Also The Honoring Of It Both Represent Affirmations Of A Certain Defiant Faith - A Desperate, Unreasoning Faith, If You Will - But Faith Nevertheless In The Endurance Of This Threatened World - Faith In The Total Essentiality Of Historical Continuity.

Public Opinion, Or What Passes For Public Opinion, Is Not Invariably A Moderating Force In The Jungle Of Politics.