The way to achieve integrity has been variously described, from the pragmatic wisdom of George Washington in his farewell address that "honesty is always the best policy" to what William Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet: "To thine own self be true.
The recent Ku Klux Klan activity in the United States, the flight of ethnic Chinese from Vietnam, a new upsurge of conflict in Northern Ireland, and the continuing deadlock between the Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East—these are instances of mortal wills at odds with each other.
We live in a world that finds its stability in a balance of power among nations—a distribution of strength intended to curb the temptation of one nation to overrun or destroy another.
