The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

It was a tragedy to begin with, ... But now we have a homicide-slash-attempted suicide.

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.