Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
History is, indeed, an argument without end.
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.