The bondage from which Americans needed, and still need, emancipation is not from Europe, but from the evasions, the incoherence, the impatience, and the easy-going conformity of their own intellectual and moral traditions.

We do not have to cross the Atlantic in order to hunt for the enemies of American national independence and fulfillment.

They sit at our political fireside and toast their feet on its coals.

They poison American patriotic feeling until it becomes, not a leaven, but a kind of national gelatine.

They enshrine this American democratic ideal in a temple of canting words which serves merely as a cover for a religion of personal profit.