Whoever in his public services is handcuffed and shackled by the vice of consistency will be a man not free to act as various questions come before him from time to time; he will be a statesman locked in a prison house, keys to which are in the keeping of days and events that are dead. Let me quote Emerson: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen.'
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Consistency can be valuable for building trust and reliability over time.
I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.
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There has never been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency.
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No problem exists between the army and the president and it is not necessary to create one artificially.