Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.