The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.
Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
nothing can wear you out like caring about people
You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.
We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.
Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing. "
If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.