The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
James Russell LowellDemocracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
James Russell Lowell