It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution