No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties read more

No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that read more

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute read more

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. read more

The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.