Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.