Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

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.