Alexander Hamilton

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.