
The Greatest Statesmen Are Thinkers
First Things Podcast
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The Distinction Between Honorable Ambition and Dishonorable Ambition
Cicero and churchill were lifelong statesmen, but there was a high mindedness that informed what they did. Churchill had confronted the worst utopian totalitarian itiology in human history. Lincoln was the great poet philosopher of the american political order. All these guys i highlight are really quite remarkable because theyre writing and speeches are worth studying with great care to day.
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