If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan I think it was the Soviet experience.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

However democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

We cannot know the whole truth which belongs to God alone but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors truth will retaliate with ugliness poverty and disease.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities treatment centers homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.