Democracy, sometimes you fall short. and that how you handle that, that is just as important as how you win. an old preacher once said, grace is but glory begun and glory is but grace perfected. grace is but glory begun and glory is but grace perfected. glory is transcendent in the life of our republic. this rotunda is a trumpet call to glory. tributes to the giants all the way up into the sky. grace grace is different. it s more elemental. it is not larger than life, it is the stuff of life. ....