This [the U. S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism. . . when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.