July 13, 2025

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

The [American] President may slip without the state suffering, for his duties are limited. Congress may slip without the Union perishing, for above Congress there is the electoral body [he means the voters] which can change its spirit by changing its membership.