Discontent does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. read more

Discontent does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. One of these is a sense of power.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held read more

A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing read more

...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.