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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department’s objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person’s standing in the political community.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.