"I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength."

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What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.

— Richard E. Byrd