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Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. To the one party man's nature is like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached.
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― First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
― First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country