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The Dirty Work At Political Conventions Is Almost Always Done In The Grim Hours Between Midnight And Dawn. Hangmen And Politicians Work Best When The Human Spirit Is At Its Lowest Ebb.

One Of The Many Burdens Of The Person Professing Christianity Has Always Been The Odium Likely To Be Heaped Upon Him By Fellow Christians Quick To Smell Out, Denounce And Punish Fraud, Hypocrisy And General Unworthiness Among Those Who Assert The Faith. In Ruder Days, Disputes About What Constituted A Fully Qualified Christian Often Led To Sordid Quarrels In Which The Disputants Tortured, Burned And Hanged Each Other In The Conviction That Torture, Burning And Hanging Were Christian Things To Do.

Journalism Was Being Whittled Away By A Wall Street Theory That Profits Can Be Maximized By Minimizing The Product.

The Best Thing About Being President Is That It Gets You Out Of American Life. I Don't Know What The Theory Is Behind This, But It Is A Fact. The First Thing We Do With A President Is Shunt Him Off To A Siding Where Nothing American Can Ever Happen To Him.

Life Seemed To Be An Educator's Practical Joke In Which You Spent The First Half Learning And The Second Half Learning That Everything You Learned In The First Half Was Wrong.