We Forget That The Most Successful Statesmen

Government Is Itself An Art, One Of The Subtlest Of The Arts. It Is Neither Business, Nor Technology, Nor Applied Science. It Is The Art Of Making Men Live Together In Peace And With Reasonable Happiness.

No Court Can Make Time Stand Still.

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.

Appeal Must Be To An Informed, Civically Militant Electorate.

The Accretion Of Dangerous Power Does Not Come In A Day. It Does Come, However Slowly, From The Generative Force Of Unchecked Disregard Of The Restrictions That Fence In Even The Most Disinterested Assertion Of Authority.