The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.