The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.
Life is too short to read inferior books.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
Life is too short for reading inferior books.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
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.