Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
Moustapha Akkad, Director (1909) |
Mukesh Ambani, Businessman (1957) |
Fisher Ames, Statesman (1758) |
Saskia De Brauw, Artist (1981) |
Stanley Fish, Writer (1938) |
Margaret Haddix, Author (1964) |
Konrad Adenauer, Statesman (1967) |
Jim Cantalupo, Businessman (2004) |
Charles Darwin, Scientist (1882) |