Some years back, all the best people came to bipartisan agreement that the most shameful thing a person could do with power was not to use it. Since then everybody who wants to get ahead in Washington has made a great show of being a fierce fellow when left alone in the room with a little power. There seems to be a fear that if there is somebody around so low that it is all right to dump the garbage on him, and you hesitate, everybody will call you a sissy, and you will never be invited to lunch with Professor Kissinger. Strange values result. Great killers are esteemed for good citizenship. 'Not afraid to use power,' people say of them.

We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed …

I went to the Rayburn Building the other day on trifling business. It was an appalling experience. I had forgotten how preposterous the thing is with its prete…

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing w…

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and ach…

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently chec…