Part of courage is simple consistency.

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.