"Government, in it's last analysis, is organized..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson

“The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.”

“Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.”

“There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.”

“All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.”

“America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.”

“Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative ChroniclesIf there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.”

“Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”