American Democracy

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“It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.”
—Chris Patten (b. 1944)