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I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
