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According to Mead, the Hamiltonian school supports pragmatic and situational solutions, the Jacksonian school is populist and values military prowess, the Wilsonian school believes in a moral commitment to the rest of the world and the Jeffersonian school favors a limited degree of intervention...
What comes across with striking clarity in this biography are two things: Roosevelt’s vigor and his endless supply of moral confidence. As a politician and as a private person, the man was nervy. Morris’ title refers to a comment from Henry James that fairly summed up his autocratic style of leadership as he tore through opposition—foreign and domestic—to achieve what he considered the only moral outcomes. Opposition, such as he saw at Harvard, was lazy and callow: “Those who remain on the sidelines...
...blood. The America of our fathers was, first, a spiritual society, and it built a democracy on the proposition that God wanted mankind to be free. Only very recently did this belief go out of vogue, when our parents’ generation inherited a righteous superpower and rejected its moral grounding like the spoiled sons of a self-made millionaire. Yet here we are in this new world where “God Bless America” is no cliché and the kites of Kabul tell us that what we have can bless others...
...statement: “in my opinion.” Bush’s qualification is precisely the reason that outlawing this research would be a mistake. His stance on the issue is not unlike his stance on abortion—they are both based on personal moral objections. These qualms must not be imposed on the rest of the nation. The government has no place interfering with a woman’s right to choose, nor does it have a place interfering with academic freedom of research. Doing so would amount to bad public policy...
There is most definitely a limit to the government’s role as arbitrator of morality. President Bush, who repeatedly charged during the campaign, “I trust people; I don’t trust the federal government,” should not impose his personal religious views on the rest of the nation. The federal government must not put an end to this promising research, which may one day save countless lives. A truly great moral leader will see its possible benefits to humanity...