Report, if you have a problem with this page“ I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success. ”
Alexis de Tocqueville
From : Recollections on the French Revolution
