Government and Politics

The government of the Union, then, is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them and for their benefit.

... for our English grumbling is equally distributed between the weather and politics, and the case would be desperate when confined to the last.

One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement.