What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.
Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!
It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.
Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth
I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.