An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair.

In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.