"It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.”
   Sad but extremely perceptive, right?
   And rather prophetic.
  True about aristocracy, true about monarchy, true about democracy, true about history, true about nations, true about institutions and governments, true about people.

   We say at The Work Farce, "All the great sayings have been said but they went in one era and out the other."