When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

We'd all like t'vote fer th'best man, but he's never a candidate.

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.