The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.
Life is too short for reading inferior books.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.