David Wilson

“That man is sharp who can say what he wants in a minimum of words.”
― Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A man can learn wisdom even from a foe”
― Aristophanes

“MAO TSE-TUNG, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world’s population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader.”
― Jung Chang, Mao: The Unknown Story