Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.
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A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
