If we hold up the yardstick of the long historical chronicle of civilizations, not the yardstick of utopia, we see how hard it is to sustain individual freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights—and this makes us revere our nation all the more.
On Teaching Civics
If we hold up the yardstick of the long historical chronicle of civilizations, not the yardstick of utopia, we see how hard it is to sustain individual freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights—and this makes us revere our nation all the more.