Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part