"In every age, there comes a time when leadership suddenly comes forth to meet the needs of the hour. And so there is no man who does not find his time, and there is no hour that does not have its leader." At first blush, this ancient saying suggests merely that there will always be a Moses when a Moses is needed. Yet, on further examination of the words, "there is no man who does not find his time," we realiw that the message conveyed is that each of us, in our own individual lives and the crises we face, will have a time to lead. Whether we will lead only a family, or a handful of friends, and where and how we will lead, is up to us, our views and our talents. But the hour Vlill come for each of us, and, became we know this, we surely must also know that the very nature of humanity and society, regard~ss of its size or complexity, will alvays turn on the act of the individ1al and, therefore on the qualityof that individual. My ecperience in the executive, legislati,e, and judicial branches of governnent and my position on the Suprem, Court all point to this conclusim: an informed, reasoned effort ly one citizen can have dramatc impact on how someone, like a ~gislator, will vote and act. When ' was in the legislature, one person, sometimes with a direct interes in the matter, sometimes withou one, would on occasion persuale me by the facts, by the clarityof the explanation and by the rasoning, to do something which never would otherwise have done. have been at caucuses when