<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373838" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Cabanis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Neither spite, fellow citizens,<br>Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness,<br>And the lawlessness and waste<br>Under democracy's rule in Spoon River<br>Made me desert the party of law and order<br>And lead the liberal party.<br>Fellow citizens! I saw as one with second sight<br>That every man of the millions of men<br>Who give themselves to Freedom,<br>And fail while Freedom fails,<br>Enduring waste and lawlessness,<br>And the rule of the weak and the blind,<br>Dies in the hope of building earth,<br>Like the coral insect, for the temple<br>To stand on at the last.<br>And I swear that Freedom will wage to the end<br>The war for making every soul<br>Wise and strong and as fit to rule<br>As Plato's lofty guardians<br>In a world republic girdled!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373838" data-title="John Cabanis de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness, And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy's rule in Spoon River Made me desert the party of law and order And lead the liberal party. Fellow citizens! I saw as one with se..."></div> </div> </div>

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