These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial) -- Jeff Greenfield
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society. -- Edward C. Banfield
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