When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.