To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.
Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.
An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.
One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.
It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than the judgments of their contemporaries. The reason is that although history is certainly "an argument without end" - we're still debating many age-old questions - time does help settle others.
I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.
Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.
Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. . . . I'm doing it and I'm loving it.
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.