The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone physical ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

–Private author about US Politics

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Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.

-Lord Acton

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

-David Brinkley

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

-Paul Valéry

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

-George Orwell

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

-Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

-Lord Acton

If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.

-Max Brooks

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

-Lord Acton

A solution shall not another problem create.

-Tom Burtonwood