If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.