"No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character."
Teddy Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913

"We will not recognise the end of democracy when it comes,if it does. Advanced democracies are not overthrown,there are no tanks on the street,no sudden catastrophes,no brash dictators or braying mobs,instead, their institutions are imperceptibly drained of everything that once made them democratic.