To Go Into A Competition And Not

Ending Torture And Tyranny In Iraq Was Not A Mistake. Supporting Democracy In Iraq Is Not A Mistake. Helping The Long-suffering Muslims Of Iraq Who Now Seek To Live Democratically Is Not A Mistake. In The Long, Long History Of The Middle East, This Breakthrough May One Day Be Ranked As A Dramatic Turning Point In Regional History.

No Great, Inspiring Culture Of The Future Can Be Built Upon The Moral Principle Of Relativism. For At Its Bottom Such A Culture Holds That Nothing Is Better Than Anything Else, And That All Things Are In Themselves Equally Meaningless. Except For The Fragments Of Faith (in Progress, In Compassion, In Conscience, In Hope) To Which It Still Clings, Illegitimately, Such A Culture Teaches Every One Of Its Children That Life Is A Tale Told By An Idiot, Signifying Nothing.

Unity In Diversity Is The Highest Possible Attainment Of A Civilization, A Testimony To The Most Noble Possibilities Of The Human Race. This Attainment Is Made Possible Through Passionate Concern For Choice, In An Atmosphere Of Social Trust.

There Is A Bigotry Rampant In America, Against Evangelicals. It Is The Last Respectable Bigotry.

Our Capacity For Self-deception Has No Known Limits