Switzerland National Track

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    “I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    “He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally and politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)