There Is An Inevitable Divergence Between The

There Is Nothing Obscure About The Objectives Of Educational Exchange. Its Purpose Is To Acquaint Americans With The World As It Is And To Acquaint Students And Scholars From Many Lands With America As It Is-not As We Wish It Were Or As We Might Wish Foreigners To See It, But Exactly As It Is-which By My Reckoning Is An "image" Of Which No American Need Be Ashamed.

There Are Many Respects In Which America, If It Can Bring Itself To Act With The Magnanimity And The Empathy Appropriate To Its Size And Power, Can Be An Intelligent Example To The World.

This Is Regrettable Indeed For A Nation That Aspires To Teach Democracy To Other Nations, Because, As Burke Said: "example Is The School Of Mankind, And They Will Learn At No Other."

Power Confuses Itself With Virtue And Tends Also To Take Itself For Omnipotence.

I Do Not Think It Is "selling America Short" When We Ask A Great Deal Of Her; On The Contrary, It Is Those Who Ask Nothing, Those Who See No Fault, Who Are Really Selling America Short!