Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
“The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.”
“What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.”