Anybody may be Governor or even President if he tries hard enough--but it is a different matter to bring some kind of order out of this confusion.

I've got an idea that I've been hammering at for the last twenty years.

Not a great one, perhaps, though I think it is; and I'd like to get a chance to put it into practice before I die.

I want to wake up people and tell them the truth." Was he, for all his matter-of-fact appearance, simply another political dreamer, another visionary without a definite vision?
"And will they listen when you tell them ?" she asked.
He laughed.

"Who knows what may happen?
When I was a kid in the circus--you have heard, of course, that I spent my childhood in a travelling circus"-- how simply he brought this out!--"the fat woman, we called her 'the fat lady' in those days, had a favourite proverb: 'When the skies fall we shall catch larks'.