“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less

“[T]he Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without. . . your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions. . . Your constitution is all sail and no

“Often a man’s own angry pride is cap and bells for a fool.” Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) This source of all sin lays waste, now, to our society. Pride is not just evidenced in the arrogance of some in

“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the

“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications. . .[for] their promises of discretion for almost forty years. . . [t]he work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. . . and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. . . And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem