JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
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.
war presidential democracy
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
intuition excellence intellectual
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
men destiny brave
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
memories history individual
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
war firsts
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
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.
long libertarian socialism
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
life surprise
History is full of surprises.
passion history disease
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
america empathy apathy
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.