Live as though you intend to live forever,and work as though your strength were limitless.
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, anguished or mocking smokescreen which keeps the other in its place.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.