“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.