The Notes Read online

  Chesterton, Gilbert K., 170–71

  children, 198, 204, 207, 210, 224, 225, 229, 242, 246, 250, 258

  Chinese proverb, 80, 146

  Christians, 73

  Churchill, Winston, 15, 39–40, 69, 74, 88–89, 131, 154, 243

  Cicero, Marcus, 18, 90–91, 131–32, 155

  cities, violence in, 85

  citizenship:

  accountability, 104–5

  responsible, 22

  City Upon a Hill, 7

  civil liberty, 7

  Civil War, U.S., 67

  civilization, 35, 51, 86–87, 100

  decline of, 8, 110

  coercion, 72, 82

  Cold War, 73

  Colossians, Epistle to, 161

  Commager, Henry Steele, 10

  communication, 158, 251

  communism, 25, 38, 48, 49, 56, 77, 129, 136, 180

  Communist Party USA, 49, 73

  compassion, 206

  computers, 194

  Conant, James, 94

  confidence, 196

  Confucius, 145–46, 156

  confusion, 80

  Congress, U.S., 3, 13, 60, 189, 234, 246

  conscience, 155, 200, 205

  conservatism, 18, 185

  Constitution, U.S., 5–6, 10, 25, 26, 42, 54, 60

  abuse of, 83

  misconstruction of, 9, 60

  presidential powers and, 14–15

  Coolidge, Calvin, 23, 44

  corruption, 222

  costrophobia, 246

  Cotton, John, 53

  courts, 26

  credit, 204

  crime, 102, 190, 222, 254

  criticism, 150, 152, 173, 194, 226, 242

  crowd control, 253

  Cub Scouts, 28

  Czechoslovakia, 131

  debt, public, 109

  deceit, 160

  Declaration of Independence, 34, 61, 124

  defense, 23, 70

  deficits, 16–17, 22

  democracy, 6, 74, 97, 132, 143

  Democrats, 179, 184, 191

  demonstrations, public, 101

  Demosthenes, 71

  Denning, Alfred “Tom,” Lord, 54

  despotism, 4, 9

  destiny of man, 88

  Dickinson, John, 118

  dictatorship, 15, 97

  dieting, 191

  diplomacy, 48–49

  disability, 96

  disadvantages, overcoming, 145–46

  disagreement, 171

  discipline, 242

  doctors, 209, 216–17, 231, 240

  duty, 88, 89, 154, 263

  Eban, Abba, 80

  Ecclesiastes, Book of, 160

  Eckerman, Johann Peter, 79

  economists, 192

  economy and economics, 11, 23–24, 190

  planned vs. unplanned, 103

  virtue of, 109

  Eden, 222

  Edison, Thomas A., 220

  education, 83, 86, 94–95, 99, 158, 177–78, 211, 225

  federal control of, 21, 185–86

  Einstein, Albert, 230

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 70

  electric chair, 102

  emancipation, 58

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 141

  employment, 41

  enemy, 252

  equality, 55, 133

  error, prevalence of, 79

  estate, progressive, 24

  Etienne, Henry, 217

  evil, 59, 161

  exaggeration, 191, 196

  excellence, 170

  existence, 73

  Exodus, Book of, 161

  experience, 210, 239

  expertise, reliance on, 19

  faith, 170–71

  Federalist Papers, 57

  Federalists, 6

  finances, 26

  fishing, 191, 200, 230

  flattery, 203, 204

  fools, 160

  Ford, Gerald, 234–35

  foreign aid, 18, 131–32, 255

  foreign policy, 132–33, 134

  forgetfulness, 197

  forgiveness, 170–71, 211, 252

  Frankl, Viktor, 164

  free enterprise, 15, 22, 25, 40, 149, 255

  free markets, 9–10, 103

  freedom, 104–5; see also liberty

  freedom from want, 85

  freedom of choice, 33, 60, 61, 62

  freedom of the individual, 51

  freedom of religion, 28

  freedom of the press, 13–14, 35, 36

  friendship, 83

  frugality, of government, 12–13, 14, 109

  Fulbright, J. William, 10, 129

  future, 117

  Gandhi, Mohandas, 151

  Garfield, James A., 150

  Gates, Frederick, 94–95

  gathering storm, 74

  gentlemen, 142

  Gladstone, William, 25

  glass houses, 237

  goals, 164, 206

  God, 7, 77, 93, 115, 116, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125, 165, 166–67

  Goebbels, Joseph, 101

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 79, 147

  Goldwater, Barry, 183

  Gompers, Samuel, 45–46, 62, 95, 109

  government, 197, 256, 257

  accountability of, 252

  government

  brassiere compared to, 229

  cost of, 93

  expansion of, 19, 20–21, 37, 41, 53, 55, 83, 92, 207, 249

  forms of, 15

  frugality of, 12–13, 14, 109

  local, 44

  limitation of, 41

  moral obligations of, 12

  as necessary evil, 59

  popular morality and, 78–79, 91, 104–5

  powers of, 4, 11, 41

  proper role of, 12, 13, 14, 21, 35–36, 38, 41, 42, 43, 52, 55, 82, 92

  relief, 16

  representative, 15

  government spending, 203

  financing of, 26

  reduction of, 59, 216

  grace, 161

  greatness, 78, 142, 162

  Greece, ancient, 11–12

  Gromyko, Andrey, 134

  guests, 247, 250

  Hall, Gus, 73

  Hamilton, Alexander, 11, 80–81

  Hand, Billings Learned, 102, 171

  Hannah, John, 185

  happiness, 38, 165

  harmony, 147

  Harris, Sydney, 150

  Hawley, Mark, 28

  healthcare, socialized, 98

  Henning, Jack, 178

  Henry, Patrick, 117–18, 149

  heroism, 141

  Hill, Benjamin H., 55

  history, 92, 130, 246

  Hitler, Adolf, 96

  Ho Chi Minh, 129

  Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 163–64

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 59

  honesty, 159, 195

  honor, 89, 157

  Hoover, Herbert, 60

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 102, 182

  hope, 8, 166, 170–71

  horse sense, 201

  housewife, 233

  human nature, 247

  Hutchins, Robert M., 21

  Ibn Khaldoun, 90

  ideas, 159, 205

  ignorance, 35, 193

  impeachment, 11

  income tax, 245, 251

  indecisiveness, 199

  individuals:

  responsibility of, 52

  security of, 5

  infamy, 23, 106

  inflation, 21, 23, 184, 197, 218, 228, 233, 246, 249, 256

  influence, 215

  initiative, 89, 95

  insanity, 207

  insurance, for public employees, 178

  intelligence services, 69

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 98, 252

  interruptions, 217

  investment, 23

  Irish Blessing, 121

  Isaiah, Book of, 123, 124

  Jackson, Henry, 179

  James, H. Thomas, 186

  Jay, John, 130

  J
efferson, Thomas, 11–14, 35, 58, 68, 81–84, 109, 116, 124, 130, 147–48

  Jews, 98–99

  jobs, 17

  Johnson, Hiram, 106

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 180

  Judges, Book of, 101

  judgment, 162, 216

  judiciary, overreaching by, 11, 26, 60

  justice, 84, 143, 241

  Kennedy, John F., 17, 53, 70, 89, 185

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 49, 73

  killing, 161

  Kissinger, Henry, 241

  Krock, Arthur, 22

  labor, 14, 87, 95, 96, 100

  Labor Party, 40

  labor union, 45–46

  Lafayette, Marquis de, 68, 85

  laissez-faire, 94

  law, rule of, 84, 85

  laws, 80–81, 105

  lawyers, 13, 107–8

  legislation, 19

  Lenin, Vladimir, 23, 47–48, 72, 133–34

  Levinson, Sam, 228

  Lewis, C. S., 86

  liberalism, 38, 77

  liberty, 13, 27–28, 33–62, 66–67, 83, 110, 116, 117, 118, 124, 133, 143, 234–35

  ignorance and, 35

  Lieber, Francis, 7

  lies, lying, 142, 160, 189, 191, 196

  life expectancy, 232

  Lincoln, Abraham, 14–15, 60, 87–88, 118–19, 152–54, 254, 258

  literature, 242

  Los Angeles, Calif., 106

  Los Angeles Times, 106

  lotteries, 81

  Louis, Joe, 145

  love, 147, 170–71, 237

  loyalty, 88, 135

  luck, 162, 245

  MacArthur, Douglas, 71

  Macaulay, Thomas, 42, 110, 157

  MacLean, Alistair, 166

  Madison, James, 57

  Magee, John Gillespie, Jr., 122

  magician, 260

  malice, 74

  Manuilsky, Dmitriy, 136

  Mao Zedong, 129, 147

  marriage, 147, 196, 208, 236, 240

  marriage, 240

  Marshall, Henry, 145–46

  martial law, 27

  McCracken, Paul, 23–24, 103

  McCulloch, John Ramsay, 104

  McGovern, George, 178–83

  Medicare, 243

  middle age, 212, 213, 237

  military might, 70, 137

  Mill, John Stuart, 3–6, 35–36, 66

  misery, 39, 40

  moderation, 144, 198

  Mollenhoff, Clark, 99

  monarchy, 15, 101

  money, 204, 212, 230–31, 244, 260

  Montesquieu, 15

  Montessori, Maria, 173

  morality, 12, 78–79, 91, 95, 104–5, 116, 119, 149, 154, 156, 168–69, 171

  moral stamina and courage, 104–5

  Moulton, John Fletcher, Lord, 100

  movies, 248

  Muhlenberg, Peter, 65

  Mundt, Karl, 182

  Munich pact, 131

  music, 80

  Muskie, Edmund, 254

  Mussolini, Benito, 51

  National Education Association, 94

  National Socialism, Nazi Party, 50, 96

  newspapers/press, 13–14

  Nguyen Van Thieu, 180, 181

  Nixon, Richard M., 181, 182

  Numbers, Book of, 120

  old age, 146, 155, 158, 202, 214, 217, 223, 236, 249

  organized labor, 22

  Ortega y Gasset, José, 86–87

  Otis, Harrison Gray, 106

  outer space, 103

  Paine, Thomas, 59

  parable, 101

  Pascal, Blaise, 162

  past, 117

  patience, 162

  patriotism, 135

  Paul, Randolph E., 24–25

  peace, 70

  Peloponnesian War, 72

  Penn, William, 91, 119

  people:

  civic responsibility of, 5, 104–5, 156

  morality of, 78–79, 91, 104–5

  Pericles, 156

  Pétain, Philippe, 151

  Peterson, Wilfred A., 165

  philanthropy, 95

  Pius XII, Pope, 38, 77–78

  planning, 152

  poem, 111

  poise, 215

  poland, 27

  political power, of people vs. elite, 11–12

  politics, politicians, 154, 171, 227, 235, 244, 255, 256, 261

  and courage of convictions, 150

  hypocrisy in, 7

  population, representation and, 184–85

  post office, 218

  poverty, the poor, 62, 103–4, 105, 219, 222, 228

  power, 53, 159

  Pravda, 135

  prejudice, 91

  president:

  powers of, 3, 10, 14–15

  public opinion and, 29

  principles, 82

  private enterprise, see free enterprise

  private property, 21, 87

  procrastination, 192

  profits, 95

  propaganda, 47, 86, 135

  property, 87

  prosperity, 5, 227

  protest, protests, 144, 179, 202

  Proverbs, Book of, 160

  public debt, 12–13, 18, 23–24, 109

  public employees:

  insurance for, 178

  strikes by, 89

  public opinion, 29, 79, 83–84, 88, 101, 153

  public sentiment, 87

  publicity, 262

  Randall, H. S., 110

  Rangers Prayer, 121

  Rauschenbusch, Walter, 45

  Read, Leonard, 21, 97, 158–59

  Reagan, Ronald, ix–xvii, 130

  reason, 84, 109

  reform, 57

  regulation, 55

  religion, 83, 115–25

  freedom of, 28

  theatre as, 166–69

  representation, proportional, 184–85