Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.