"[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible."

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In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

— John Ruskin