demagogue

mind

secret

voting

William Shakespeare

nationality

British

occupation / innovator as

actor

playwright

poet

literary critic

Latham's A Dictionary of the English Language, a re-print of Doctor Johnson's sweeping version from 1755, defines 'demagogue' as 'ringleader of the rabble' but also, secondarily, as a 'popular and factious orator.'

is like a bow, the stronger for being unbent.

The mind is like a bow, the stronger for being unbent

is like a wild bird put into a cage when in a gossips mouth. The door no sooner opens that it is out.

A secret in his [the gossip's] mouth is like a wild bird put into a cage... whose door no sooner opens, but it is out

is such that the right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged and without which none can be protected.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged and without which none can be protected. Benjamin Todd Jealous

is a writer from whose works, like Euripides, may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

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