The truth is hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

It seems to be a law of nature inflexible and inexorable that those who will not risk cannot win.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.