A Tactic That Drags On Too Long

The Seventh Rule Of The Ethics Of Means And Ends Is That Generally Success Or Failure Is A Mighty Determinant Of Ethics. The Judgment Of History Leans Heavily On The Outcome Of Success Or Failure; It Spells The Difference Between The Traitor And The Patriotic Hero. There Can Be No Such Thing As A Successful Traitor, For If One Succeeds He Becomes A Founding Father.

I Prize My Own Independence Too Much. And Philosophically, I Could Never Accept Any Rigid Dogma Or Ideology, Whether It's Christianity Or Marxism…the Greatest Crimes In History Have Been Perpetrated By Such Religious And Political And Racial Fanatics, From The Persecutions Of The Inquisition On Down To Communist Purges And Nazi Genocide.

In This World Laws Are Written For The Lofty Aim Of "the Common Good" And Then Acted Out In Life On The Basis Of The Common Greed. In This World Irrationality Clings To Man Like His Shadow So That The Right Things Get Done For The Wrong Reasons - Afterwards, We Dredge Up The Right Reasons For Justification. It Is A World Not Of Angels But Of Angles, Where Men Speak Of Moral Principles But Act On Power Principles; A World Where We Are Always Moral And Our Enemies Always Immoral; A World Where "reconciliation" Means That When One Side Gets The Power And The Other Side Gets Reconciled To It.

A Free And Open Society Is An Ongoing Conflict, Interrupted Periodically By Compromises.

A Racially Integrated Community Is A Chronological Term Timed From The Entrance Of The First Black Family To The Exit Of The Last White Family.