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.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, read more

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not read more

I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.