Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.