The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.