No Office In The Land Is More

We Forget That The Most Successful Statesmen Have Been Professionals. Lincoln Was A Professional Politician.

Time And Experience Have Forcefully Taught That The Power To Inspect Dwelling Places, Either As A Matter Of Systematic Area-by-area Search Or, As Here, To Treat A Specific Problem, Is Of Indispensable Importance In The Maintenance Of Community Health; A Power That Would Be Greatly Hobbled By The Blanket Requirement Of The Safeguards Necessary For A Search Of Evidence Of Criminal Acts.

All Our Work, Our Whole Life Is A Matter Of Semantics, Because Words Are The Tools With Which We Work, The Material Out Of Which Laws Are Made, Out Of Which The Constitution Was Written. Everything Depends On Our Understanding Of Them.

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.

Gratitude Is One Of The Least Articulate Of The Emotions, Especially When It Is Deep. I Can Express With Very Limited Adequacy The Passionate Devotion To This Land That Possesses Millions Of Our People, Born, Like Myself, Under Other Skies, For The Privilege That That This County Has Bestowed In Allowing Them To Partake Of Its Fellowship.