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representative government, 15

  republicanism, 57

  Republicans, 184

  responsibility, 164

  retaliation, 130, 180

  revolution, 47, 92

  Revolutionary War, 65

  Rockefeller, John D., 94

  Rogers, Will, 26, 107–8

  Rome, ancient, 11–12, 110

  Romulo, Phil, 59

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 16–17, 19, 89

  Russia, 136, 137

  Russian joke, 234

  Russian roulette, 217

  Ruth, Babe, 145

  sacrifice, 8, 151

  Saint Peter, 235

  Santa Claus, 255

  savings/savers, 23–24

  schools, private, 94

  Schreiner (poet), 160

  Scottish ballad, 158

  SDS, 57

  security, of individuals, 5

  sedition, 85

  self-control, 157

  self-preservation, 74, 81

  self-reliance, 105–6, 151, 156

  Seneca, Lucius, 155, 172

  Shaw, George Bernard, 43

  sins, 214

  slavery, 36, 58, 67, 69

  Slichter, Sumner, 25

  Smith, Adam, 149

  Smith, Al, 145–46

  Social Security, 243

  socialism, 38, 39–40, 43, 45, 49, 51, 56, 77, 94, 97, 108, 133, 136, 177–78, 185

  socialized medicine, 98

  Socrates, 91

  soldiers, 66–67, 71

  Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 137

  Sophocles, 119

  Sorensen, Theodore, 29

  sovereignty, 9

  Soviet Union, 49, 132, 134, 137, 199, 234–35

  Sparta, 91

  Spencer, Herbert, 105–6

  Stalin, Joseph, 48–49

  State, 20–21

  States’ rights, 5, 9, 11

  statistics, 189

  Statue of Liberty, 46

  Sternlieb, George, 103–4

  strikes, by public employees, 89

  students, 211

  success, 216, 217, 218, 224

  Sun-Tzu, 69

  Supreme Court, U.S., 125

  power of, 3

  Talmud, 157

  taxes, taxation, 6, 24–25, 81, 90, 102, 107, 109, 111, 183, 192, 219, 232, 233, 245, 251, 252, 256

  equality of, 20, 104

  and foreign aid, 131–32

  reduction of, 17, 59, 184

  and spending, 59

  taxpayer, 233

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 190

  “Teacher” (Mollenhoff), 99

  technology, 201, 252

  teenagers, 262

  television, 211, 212, 236

  Texas, 248

  theatre, 166–70

  Thessalonians, Second Epistle to, 100

  Thomas, Norman, 108, 184

  thought, power of, 162

  time, wasting of, 214

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 6, 36–37

  Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 92

  trains, 221

  treason, 85, 90

  truth, 8, 79, 145, 150

  tyranny, 44

  Tytler, Alexander Fraser, 97

  underdeveloped nation, 241

  unions, 45–46

  United Nations, 254

  United States, as protector of small nations, 8

  USSR, 137

  utopia, 184

  values, 86

  verbosity, 153, 262

  victory, 71

  Vietnam War, 180–82

  violence:

  and government, 92

  necessity of, 72

  urban, 85

  virtue, 15

  virtues, 163, 167

  Voltaire, 197

  votes, 216

  “Wanted” (Holland), 163–64

  war, 65–74, 84, 91

  Warren, Earl, 184–85

  Washington, George, 68, 84–85, 116, 172, 218, 248, 250

  wealth, redistribution of, 24–25, 197, 219, 256

  Weber, Louise E., 47

  Webster, Daniel, 3–6, 35–36, 42, 78–79

  welfare system, welfare state, 16, 18, 22, 50, 62, 95, 96, 103–4, 105–6, 223, 228, 256

  Williams, Jack, 163

  Willkie, Wendell, 172

  Wilson, Woodrow, 18, 41

  Winthrop, John, 7

  wisdom, 146, 157, 160

  Wolfe, Thomas, 33, 61

  women, 196, 199, 207, 213, 232, 234, 236, 237, 238, 240, 244, 263

  work, 100, 203, 205, 212, 214, 220, 224, 230–31, 252

  World War II, 74

  Wormser, Rene A., 177–78

  youth, 91, 210, 211, 217, 223, 226, 239, 248, 262

  zealots, 148

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