All Wars Are Popular For

Self-righteousness In Retrospect Is Easy--also Cheap.

The Very Discovery Of The New World Was The By-product Of A Dietary Quest.

The Military Struggle May Frankly Be Regarded For What It Actually Was, Namely A War For Independence, An Armed Attempt To Imposethe Views Of The Revolutionists Upon The British Government And Large Sections Of The Colonial Population At Whatever Cost To Freedom Of Opinion Or The Sanctity Of Life And Property.

The Use Of History As Therapy Means The Corruption Of History As History.

To Say That There Is A Case For Heroes Is Not To Say That There Is A Case For Hero Worship. The Surrender Of Decision, The Unquestioning Submission To Leadership, The Prostration Of The Average Man Before The Great Man -- These Are The Diseases Of Heroism, And They Are Fatal To Human Dignity. History Amply Shows That It Is Possible To Have Heroes Without Turning Them Into Gods. And History Shows, Too, That When A Society, In Flight From Hero Worship, Decides To Do Without Great Men At All, It Gets Into Troubles Of Its Own.