In The One Branch He Most Needed

Politics Is Simply The Organization Of Hatreds.

One Sought Not Absolute Truth. One Sought Only A Spool On Which To Wind The Thread Of History Without Breaking It.

Although The Senate Is Much Given To Admiring In Its Members A Superiority Less Obvious Or Quite Invisible To Outsiders, One Senator Seldom Proclaims His Own Inferiority To Another, And Still More Seldom Likes To Be Told Of It.

He Too Serves A Certain Purpose Who Only Stands And Cheers.

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Had Always Been Tragic, Chiefly As An Almost Insane Excitement At First, And A Worse Reaction Afterwards.