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It Would Be A Healthy Exercise For Every Politician To Look In The Mirror Every Morning And Remind Himself That He Holds Office Only Because, In A Two-man Race Against Another Mediocrity, A Modest Majority Of Those Half-informed People Who Imagined That Their Votes Mattered Reckoned That He Was The Lesser Evil. And They Weren't Too Sure About That.

Wartime Always Brings Expansions Of State Power, Together With Erosions Of Moral And Constitutional Standards.

The Measure Of The State's Success Is That The Word Anarchy Frightens People, While The Word State Does Not.

Like Psychoanalysis, Constitutional Jurisprudence Has Become A Game Without Rules. By Defying The Plain Meaning Of Words, Ignoring Context And History, And Using A Little Ingenuity, You Can Make The Constitution Mean Anything You Like.

The Difference Between A Politician And A Pickpocket Is That A Pickpocket Doesn't Always Get Indignant When You Tell Him To Keep His Hands To Himself.