Alexandre Dumas Quotes
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Explanation of why China cannot have democracy. Apologists for the President observe that by quality he meant not educated enough or experienced enough. Historically China has had some fearsome civil wars where more people have been killed in one year than were killed in any World War in a year including the Holocaust. The Chinese are very fearful of the kind of instability that could come from a vibrant democracy where people are divided. For America and many of the democracies of the West, there can be strong disagreement within a concept of civil polity and unity of country. But this is something China had not yet had experienced at the time.
Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where père is French for 'father', thus 'the elder/senior'), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century into nearly 200 films.