The sincerity, rectitude, firmness, and sweetness of this soft glance of a noble woman, who could dare all to save him to whom she owed all, at first astonished, then penetrated him.
Mr Obama wants to bring greater transparency and legal rectitude to the way America goes about eliminating its foes, while Mr Brennan appears to want to hand over the operation of lethal drones to the Pentagon.
But in America's early days, we lived in what historians call aculture of character, where we still, at that point, valued people for their innerselves and their moral rectitude.