“ Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation. They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of ta… Henry David Thoreau
“ 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… Brian Spellman
“ No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. Henry David Thoreau
“ An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator. Ron Brackin
“ 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 o… Howard Fast
“ Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
