The highest function of the citizen is to serve the state—but the first assumption that meets him, when he essays to discharge it, is an assumption of his disingenuousness and dishonour.


Is it inordinately wasteful, extravagant, dishonest? Then so is every other form of government: all alike are enemies to laborious and virtuous men.


The fraud of democracy, I contend, is more amusing than any other—more amusing even, and by miles, than the fraud of religion. - H.L. Mencken