The taller the hat, the shorter the patience I had for nonsense. by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln, that hat was not height. It was a storage unit for patience you refused to spend.

Theodore, if I spent all my patience, nonsense would have started billing me rent.

Loud men always call restraint weakness because volume is the only tool they brought.

Frederick, a quiet leader still has to move the room.

Yes, but not by wrestling every chair.

I wore a tall hat because some arguments needed shade before they deserved an answer.

That is polite for saying you were surrounded by amateurs.

No, Theodore. Polite is what kept the amateurs from knowing.