"Democracy... is a charming form of government,..." - Quote by Plato

“As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.”

“Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.”

“In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.”

“The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.”

“We can't win a war, but we can win an election.”

“The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.”

“Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.”

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

“If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.”