Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
E. B. WhiteWriting is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
E. B. WhiteDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. WhiteAmericans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
E. B. White