Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.