Democracy

The political process…a mere battle of rival rogues. But the mob remains quite free to decide between them.

~ H.L. Mencken Notes On Democracy (1926)

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Get off our backs

We have a choice to make once and for all: between the empire and the spiritual and physical salvation of our people. No road for the people will ever be open unless the government completely gives up control over us or any aspect of our lives. It has led the country into an abyss and it does not know the way out.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, as quoted by Pravda (1986)

Let's do so again

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford