May 11, 2025

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), American journalist, In New York Herald Tribune, 14 April 1945, Jay p.228

What convictions will survive you? And among whom?

Written upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who passed the test. The coalition he put together lasted thirty years.