We have talked so much about winning an "all-out" victory during the years of World War II that our attention has been focused and our interest centered upon mass behavior. We speak of the world as having gone mad. But madness is a malady of the human mind. The world outside cannot go mad; only the world inside is capable of sanity and insanity. We talk of the Government’s having full responsibility for making all the decisions. But the Government is not an abstraction. It is composed of individuals. And in a democracy every human being is supposed to contribute his best judgment, to express his deepest convictions, and to influence as intelligently as possible his compatriots and particularly his political representatives. To renounce personal responsibility and to ignore individual integ…