Quote #5
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
More from Thomas Carlyle
- A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
- So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
- The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
- He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
- It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
- Here numerous persons, with big wigs many of them, and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an a…
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.