Democracy 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 LowellIf the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
James Russell Lowell