Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Never Give In!
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Discourses
Newspapers ... chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever. The Critic as Artist
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death. Hope
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