A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.