Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education should be the discovery of truth-i.e., the discovery of the laws that govern action, including human action. If we are not subject to natural law, then there can be no guide-posts and no real reason to pursue knowledge. It does not require an education to live in a universe where all things go by chance or whim...
...what import are the various methods of learning if learning itself has no substance, no corpus of laws, no end? The business of American educators is to seek to establish the nature of man and the universe, and to make a valiant try at formulating the laws that govern each . . . Certainty may elude us, but if we do not try eternally for certainty, there is no point to education, and no need to spend money in sending our boys and girls to school...
...social life becomes intolerable, if not impossible, unless justice and benevolence govern the operations of the state and relationships between individuals and groups . . . Expressions such as 'my life is my own affair,' ... or 'in politics anything goes' are all too common today. They betray a gross misunderstanding of the moral order...
...side of the essential relationship between law and justice. He seems blind to the responsibilities and opportunities of U.S. leadership. In a detached, passive and utterly unrealistic passage, he says: "It seems to me that peace in this world is impossible unless nations agree on a definite law to govern their relations . . . and also agree that, without any veto power, they will submit their disputes to adjudication and abide by the decision of an impartial tribunal...
When the "People's Republic of China" first began to govern, the U.S. government proinptly announced--to the vociferous applause of its Congressional critics--that the Communist government was bad and that this country could not recognize it. The Chinese must have seen in this rejection a fundamental hostility, which, along with the refusal to admit them to U.N. membership, may have been one of the factors that led to their intervention in the Korean war. When the Communist "volunteers" poured into South Korea, administration spokesman and Republican leaders displayed an "I told you so" attitude...