Richard Sheehan

“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
― Theodore Roosevelt