The English language is not always the President's friend.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.