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• For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
• A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…
• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him…
• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect…
• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in…
• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about…
• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

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