"Christians forget that it was the Devil who tempted Jesus with unbounded wealth and power. And it is the Devil in every American that makes us feel good about being so powerful... It is gratifying for Americans to recall that ours is the longest-lived revolution in the world, maybe even the most successful. But it would be a mistake to forget that our influence as a people was greatest when as a nation we were weakest. We rallied for more hopes and energies when we had not rockets and no muscle. The other day I read words of Alexander Hamilton more pertinent perhaps to our time than his: ‘To be more safe the nations at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.’ Today our danger may lie in becoming more concerned with defense than with having things worth defending."