I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Hope clouds observation.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Grief is the price of victory.