The Notes (50 page)

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

Jefferson, 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

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