Tag Archives: Commence

Thought For the Day: Music Is the Literature of the Heart; It Commences Where Speech Ends

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”  – Alphonse de LaMartine

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First Principles: Of Those Who Have Overturned Republican Liberty, Most Have Begun By Courting the People and Ending Tyrants

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)      

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