The Creative Challenge of Individualism

The Prince (New York: Modern Library). The modifications to the quote are mine.

Said in his defense by Charles I of England before his execution at Oliver Cromwell's behest in 1649.

Udall Stewart , “Topics: The Value Revolution,” The New York Times (June 7, 1969), 34.

There are some singular counter-examples in our own history. For instance, in 1776, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, its author, was all of 33; the three who were to write the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, were 19, 31 and 25, respectively. Unfortunately, these individuals were rare exceptions.

“You Have to Grow up in Scarsdale to Know How Bad Things Really Are,” The New York Times Magazine (April 27, 1969), 124.

Camus Albert , Notebooks, 1935–1942 (New York: Knopf, 1963), p. 228.

Adapted from the Godkin Lectures at Harvard University, 1969, as abstracted in Science (April 25, 1969), 379.

Taken from the Fifth Annual Lecture on Man and Nature at the Museum of Natural History, New York; as reported in The New York Times (March 16, 1969), 62.

Paton Alan , “The Challenge of Fear,” Saturday Review (September 9, 1967), 46.

Herodotus , Book IX, 16.

Rossiter Clinton Lare James (eds.) The Essential Lippman: A Political Philosophy for a Liberal Democracy, (New York: Vintage Books, 1965), p. 202.

Fromm Erich , Escape from Freedom (New York: Rinehart, 1941).