My Generation, Faced As It Grew With

I Guess The Second-term Team Is Not Quite As Adoring As The First.

In Ancient Israel And Rome The Judge Had Appeared As A Stand-in For The Divine, And Corruption Was A Blinding Of The Representative Of The Divine.

You Don't Have To Be Old In America To Say Of A World You Lived In: 'that World Is Gone.'

Our Patriotic Fervor Was The Result Of The Old And Widespread Belief In The Idea Of American Exceptionalism, The Idea That America Was A New Thing In History, Different From Other Countries. Other Nations Had Evolved One Way Or Another, Evolved From Tribes From A Gathering Of Clans, From Inevitabilities Of Language And Tradition And Geography. But America Was Born, And Born Of Ideas: That All Men Are Created Equal, That They Have Been Given By God Certain Rights That Can Be Taken From Them By No Man, And That Those Rights Combine To Create A Thing Called Freedom.

Speeches Are Not Magic And There Is No Great Speech Without Great Policy.