Quotes from Tom Wicker

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.