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...majority that it was, in fact, defeated. Fatigued and discouraged, the old mountaineer could not weather another crisis and submitted his resignation; other, younger hands took over. He continued to be an elder statesman, but in June he stepped down as president of the Christian Democratic Party. Now his noblest ambition was to become the first president of the United States of Europe...
Your comparison ... is an outrage. What is more, you are plenty bright enough to know it. To set himself above the Constitution, as McCarthy has done ... is tyranny. To seek new truths about the universe, as Oppenheimer has ever sought them ... is democracy in its noblest form...
...Condon's letter, which has appeared in the press, contained a severe attack on Dr. Oppenheimer. Nevertheless, he now testifies that he is prepared to support Dr. Condon in the loyalty investigation of the latter . . . Loyalty to one's friends is one of the noblest of qualities. Being loyal to one's friends above reasonable obligations to the country and to the security system, however, is not clearly consistent with the interests of security...
...Noblest Game. In March 1909, Republican Theodore Roosevelt obeyed his earlier campaign pledge not .to seek a third term, and turned the presidency over to his "lieutenant," William Howard Taft, governor of the Philippines and later Secretary of War under T.R. He went to Africa for a ten-month hunting holiday, on trail of "the noblest game in all the world." Before he got back to civilization at Khartoum, however, he had found time, in the midst of hunting, to reread his favorite author, Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, to acquire a late-in-life appreciation of Shakespeare, and to pass...
...moral grounds, his appeal to conscience may seem above reproach. On purely practical grounds, he may not have accomplished very much. We have tried to evaluate the testimony on both its personal courage and practical consequences. Conscience does not exist in a vacuum, and, at times, an individual's noblest acts are, in the end, harmful to the principles he wants to defend. This second editorial is an attempt to further clarify a complicated distinction...