Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.