Gordon

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“A Republic! Look in the history of the Earth ... To be the first man—not the Dictator, not the Sylla, but the Washington or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truth—is next to the Divinity!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe—you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“And had it been the dove from Noah’s ark,
Returning there from her successful search,
Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)