When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
There is no beauty without order.
The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.