Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.
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.
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.
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.
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.
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