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It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871