Sunday, March 18, 2007

Swift For The Quick

"He likewise directed, that every Senator in the great Council of a Nation, after he had delivered his Opinion, and argued in the Defence of it, should be obliged to give his Vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the Result would infallibly terminate in the Good of the Public" (Gulliver's Travels, III. vi. [p. 176]).

Thursday, March 08, 2007