America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.