HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers. - Ambrose Bierce
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it. - James Russell Lowell