John Stuart Mill. Franklin D. Roosevelt. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a…

H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…