JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
past remember aphorism
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
educational democracy politician
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
hero men average
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.
military war struggle
The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.
justice people way
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
psychological-needs president presidency
Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.
book thinking should-have
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
order soldier world
In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
irony ends form
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
men destiny brave
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
self retrospect easy
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,
mean history use
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
faith freedom knowledge
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue...
years white long
The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty