Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn’t in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It’s a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
I think that if your approach is one where you don’t want to alienate anybody, you’re going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you’re offering to such an extent that it doesn’t have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.