My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.
My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.