No doubt it was better to have become president than not.
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
The police are the public and the public are the police
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.
I have seen war. . . I hate war.
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.