Part Of Courage Is Simple Consistency.

The Democrats Had Long Labeled The Impeachment Debate A Distraction From The Urgent Business Of A Great Nation. But The Republicans Argued That The Pursuit Of Justice Is The Business Of A Great Nation. In Winning This Point, They Caught The Falling Flag, Producing A Triumph For The Rule Of Law, A Reassertion Of The Belief That No Man Is Above It, And A Rebuke For An Arrogance That Had Grown Imperial.

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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.

We Are All Afraid. That's The Thing That Unites All Truly Successful People: Fear, Fear Of Failing, Fear Of Criticism, Fear Of Letting Down The Team In Some Way. That Why They Try So Hard, That's Why They Pay Attention To Detail And Try To Get Every Possible Duck In A Row. It's Fear

One Way To Keep People Close To You Is By Not Giving Them Enough. ... With People Who Give A Lot Of Themselves, You Sometimes Lean Back - But With People Who Give Little You Often Lean Forward, As If They're A Spigot In The Desert And You're The Empty Cup. It Is The Tropism Of Deprivation: We Lean Toward Those Who Do Not Give.