When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.