Fundamental Principles

Socrates: Well how would you gentlemen compose your fundamental principles, if a majority, exercising its fundamental right to rule, ordained that only Buddhism should be taught in the public schools.

William Jennings Bryan: I’d move to a Christian country.

Thomas Jefferson: I’d exercise the sacred right of revolution. What would you do, Socrates?

Socrates: I’d re-examine my fundamental principles.

                           Walter Lippmann, American Inquisitors