Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions.
The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.