Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

I'm A Speaker, Your A Listener.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.

May God direct your path.

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go

A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.