You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs....
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle justified by exemplary conversation.
