Quotes

Due to your requests, we'll explain some recently spoken quotes from our heroes in and out of the field:

"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few," John Adams, 1763, from the essay "Man's Lust for Power". What John is trying to say is that Democracy will turn into anarchy with everything being right and nothing being safe and will be a shadow of all the good in the world.

"To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers," Benjamin Franklin, Reply to Coffee House Orators, 1767. What Ben is trying to say is to the ranters of the people among the old, you can find success only in pamplets, the news, and even pedestrian talk.