Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

Circumstances...give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civi…

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for …

[Alan Cranston] understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' - Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close…