In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
Amelia Barrpoliticians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
Amelia Barr