All 9 Uses

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Profiles in Courage
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Fortunately or unfortunately, few follow that urge—but the provocation is there—not only from unreasonable letters and impossible requests, but also from hopelessly inconsistent demands and endlessly unsatisfied grievances.†
Chpt 0.1
All of us in the Senate meet endless examples of such conflicting pressures, which only reflect the inconsistencies inevitable in our complex economy.†
Chpt 0.1 *
That very week he had written a friend: "From my earliest youth, I have regarded slavery as a great moral and political evil......You need not fear that I shall vote for any compromise or do anything inconsistent with the past."†
Chpt 2.3
He would act according to the creed with which he had challenged the Senate several years earlier: Inconsistencies of opinion arising from changes of circumstances are often justifiable.†
Chpt 2.3
But there is one sort of inconsistency that is culpable: it is the inconsistency between a man's conviction and his vote, between his conscience and his conduct.†
Chpt 2.3
But there is one sort of inconsistency that is culpable: it is the inconsistency between a man's conviction and his vote, between his conscience and his conduct.†
Chpt 2.3
No man shall ever charge me with an inconsistency of that kind.†
Chpt 2.3
Taft did not believe that this was inconsistent with the conservative doctrine; conservatism in his opinion was not irresponsibility.†
Chpt 4.9
In each of them complexities, inconsistencies and doubts arise to plague us.†
Chpt 4.11

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