You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.