"I am as constant as the northern star," Shakespeare's Julius Caesar boasts to the men who conspired to kill him. "Of whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament."From such hubris great tragedies are made. But for cautious and colorless practitioners of 21st century American politics, false modesty is accepted as a necessary attribute, much more so than the authentic virtue. In such a crowd, Dick Cheney was born to stand out.Cheney's refusal to disguise his prideful confidence in his own judgment with the merest...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/01/the_hubris_of_dick_cheney_111148.html
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