Anybody Who Is Any Good Is Different

The Most Constructive Way Of Resolving Conflicts Is To Avoid Them.

Wisdom Too Often Never Comes, And So One Ought Not To Reject It Merely Because It Comes Late.

Lincoln's Appeal To "the Better Angels Of Our Nature" Failed To Avert A Fratricidal War. But The Compassionate Wisdom Of Lincoln's First And Second Inaugurals Bequeathed To The Union, Cemented With Blood, A Moral Heritage Which, When Drawn Upon In Times Of Stress And Strife, Is Sure To Find Specific Ways And Means To Surmount Difficulties That May Appear To Be Insurmountable.

It Is Easy To Make Light Of Insistence On Scrupulous Regard For The Safeguards Of Civil Liberties When Invoked On Behalf Of The Unworthy. It Is Too Easy. History Bears Testimony That By Such Disregard Are The Rights Of Liberty Extinguished, Heedlessly At First, Then Stealthily, And Brazenly In The End.

It Is Important Not To Give The Appearance Of A Predisposed Mind. And It Is More Important Not To Let The Mind Become Predisposed.