To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
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.