We seem to assume that if only someone could find the cure for our disease, some new plan, we should at once see that it was the cure and apply it. We ask for leaders and leadership. But if the right course, which the leader indicates, is regarded by the multitudes sincerely as the wrong one, they will declare that he is no leader but a misleader. Inevitably in a democracy the leader is he who expresses existing convictions in the most vivid way, who possesses, as someone puts it, 'the common mind to an uncommon degree'.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intenti…

The convictions of the multitudes - and on certain points like the desirability of organizing the world on a nationalist basis there is overwhelming agreement …

The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of g…

The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would …

The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress - these, for the most part, ill…

The population of the US is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any mea…