The Citizen Who Criticizes His

I Think We Americans Tend To Put Too High A Price On Unanimity, As If There Were Something Dangerous And Illegitimate About Honest Differences Of Opinion Honestly Expressed By Honest Men.

The Age Of Warrior Kings And Of Warrior Presidents Has Passed. The Nuclear Age Calls For A Different Kind Of Leadership.... A Leadership Of Intellect, Judgment, Tolerance And Rationality, A Leadership Committed To Human Values, To World Peace, And To The Improvement Of The Human Condition. The Attributes Upon Which We Must Draw Are The Human Attributes Of Compassion And Common Sense, Of Intellect And Creative Imagination, And Of Empathy And Understanding Between Cultures.

The Greatest Single Virtue Of A Strong Legislature Is Not What It Can Do, But What It Can Prevent.

To Ask For Overt Renunciation Of A Cherished Doctrine Is To Expect Too Much Of Human Nature. Men Do Not Repudiate The Doctrines And Dogmas To Which They Have Sworn Their Loyalty. Instead They Rationalize, Revise, And Re-interpret Them To Meet New Needs And New Circumstances, All The While Protesting That Their Heresy Is The Purest Orthodoxy.

Finally, The Program Aims, Through These Means, To Bring A Little More Knowledge, A Little More Reason, And A Little More Compassion Into World Affairs And Thereby To Increase The Chance That Nations Will Learn At Last To Live In Peace And Friendship.