FDR once said that a president must look beyond day-to-day administrative tasks and beyond simply making the inefficient efficient. The office of the presidency, Roosevelt continued, “is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.” He added, “All...
People prefer to affiliate themselves with wealthy, beautiful, and well born persons over those whose gifts are limited to only virtue and wisdom. John Adams, citing evidence from ancient Greek poetry, stated that this behavior has always existed; even religion...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so...
“The presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain...
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