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“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Others Exonerated the plebs and threw the blame upon the patricians: it was owing to their artful canvassing that the plebeians found the road…

— Titus Livy

“And to make the matter worse, rich as they were, they never were able to pay anybody anything that they owed. They continued to…

— Anthony Trollope

“It was themselves he gave back to them, blurred by the compromises of how many years.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply…

— Christie Golden

“And - as is perhaps the universal custom of aristocratically bred persons - they reacted to the news of their ruin by resolving to…

— Salman Rushdie

“The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors—and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“And then, when it was pointed out that the only way to pay for the idea would be for the government to take 10…

— Dani Kollin

“and that which is done of goodwill must, to my thinking, be accepted favourably. Had it been otherwise, methinks they had ere now been…

— Walter Scott

“Atticus was saying, “With people like us—that’s our share of the bill. We generally get the juries we deserve. Our stout Maycomb citizens aren’t…

— Harper Lee

“It was the right and responsible thing to do, so they put it off until later.”

— Ellen Potter