We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
We have to have the faithful in government.
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
We are world leaders, and we need to act like it.
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.