i got tired of ken burns' brand of documentary but i like this quote:

the opposite of faith is not doubt but certainty.                                      doubt is the mechanics of faith in a way; it’s testing and not being too sure. Learned Hand — could there be a better name for a judge than Learned Hand? — said liberty is never being too sure you’re right. that’s a wonderful, kind of unamerican statement. because we are certain that we’re right. i am aware that i imbibed, growing up, an exceptionalism-without-question view of us. which Ii have spent my entire professional career dismantling — to the place where i then thought i could at least show glimmers of where exceptionalism might take place or has taken place. i think i’ve learned how to avoid both the ratification of simplistic heroes and villains and to muddy the water with the shades of gray. it’s the only way in which actual life takes place.