“In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.”

“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.”

“Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Wiseman participates, others are just observers”

“We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.”

“Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.”