I'm sleeping like a baby, too -- every two hours, I wake up, screaming.
Upon hearing that President Bush was "sleeping like a baby" on the eve of the Iraq war. Quoted by Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker (10 Feb 2003).
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass. I remember how easy it was for my mother to snap me back into line with a simple rebuke: 'I'm ashamed of you. You embarrassed the family.' I would have preferred a beating to those words.
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
The First Amendment exists to insure that freedom of speech and expression applies not just to that with which we agree or disagree, but also that which we find outrageous. I would not amend that great shield of democracy to hammer a few miscreants. The flag will be flying proudly long after they have slunk away.
On a proposed flag-burning amendment. Full text.
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