Quote #162
A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
- I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
- Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
- Pleasure of itself is not a vice.
- It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
- All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
- All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
- As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in…