We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.
– FDR, January 20, 1945
“Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path, every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.” – @POTUS
— Andrew Rotherham (@arotherham) January 20, 2021