Stacy Schiff Quotes

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.