Swift Defined Observation To Be

I Must Do Something To Keep My Thoughts Fresh And Growing. I Dread Nothing So Much As Falling Into A Rut And Feeling Myself Becoming A Fossil.

I Found A Kind Of Party Terrorism Pervading And Oppressing The Minds Of Our Best Men.

There Are Times In The History Of Men And Nations, When They Stand So Near The Vale That Separates Mortals From The Immortals, Time From Eternity, And Men From Their God, That They Can Almost Hear The Beatings, And Feel The Pulsations Of The Heart Of The Infinite.

It Is Not Part Of The Functions Of The National Government To Find Employment For People - And If We Were To Appropriate A Hundred Millions For This Purpose, We Should Be Taxing Forty Millions Of People To Keep A Few Thousand Employed.

Individuals May Wear For A Time The Glory Of Our Institutions, But They Carry It Not To The Grave With Them. Like Raindrops From Heaven, They May Pass Through The Circle Of The Shining Bow And Add To Its Luster; But When They Have Sunk In The Earth Again, The Proud Arch Still Spans The Sky And Shines Gloriously On.