“If this is one of the truest indicia of character—a temperament so balanced and serene that it can almost command its environment—then character is bound to be rare among politicians, even the best of them, for they naturally tend to reflect rather than command their environment. But we see evidences of precisely this quality in America’s very greatest presidents—Washington and Lincoln—and I do not hesitate to set it down at the very top of my own personal list of requirements.”
Source: The Making of the New Majority Party (1975)
Keywords: biography,governance,identity
