The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous inter...ests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the naïve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest.... Statesmanship ... consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function ...of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »