Peggy Noonan - Nation Quotes

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Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. … It's hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.

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The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued that the pursuit of justice is the business of a great nation. In winning this point, they caught the falling flag, producing a triumph for the rule of law, a reassertion of the belief that no man is above it, and a rebuke for an arrogance that had grown imperial.

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