We have staked the whole future . . . To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries.