Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.