Life Is An Endless Process

Storybook Happiness Involves Every Form Of Pleasant Thumb-twiddling; True Happiness Involves The Full Use Of One's Powers And Talents.

We Cannot Have Islands Of Excellence In A Sea Of Slovenly Indifference To Standards.

Tax Reduction Has An Almost Irresistible Appeal To The Politician, And It Is No Doubt Also Gratifying To The Citizen. It Means More Dollars In His Pocket, Dollars That He Can Spend If Inflation Doesn't Consume Them First. But Dollars In His Pocket Won't Buy Him Clean Streets Or An Adequate Police Force Or Good Schools Or Clean Air And Water. Handing Money Back To The Private Sector In Tax Cuts And Starving The Public Sector Is A Formula For Producing Richer And Richer Consumers In Filthier And Filthier Communities. If We Stick To That Formula We Shall End Up In Affluent Misery.

More And More Americans Feel Threatened By Runaway Technology, By Large-scale Organization, By Overcrowding. More And More Americans Are Appalled By The Ravages Of Industrial Progress, By The Defacement Of Nature, By Man-made Ugliness. If Our Society Continues At Its Present Rate To Become Less Livable As It Becomes More Affluent, We Promise All To End Up In Sumptuous Misery.

The First And Last Task Of Aleader Is To Keep Hope Alive.