“There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.”
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.