It seemed at times that everyone was an FOB — everyone, that is, who'd emerged from the ivyest groves of academia […]

In my own instance, well do I remember the time when the principle of universal suffrage, however modified, presented itself to me as being in a general view inadmissible. … No : the closer the attention bestowed, the firmer has all along been my conviction—on the one hand of the undangerousness of the principle, taken in the utmost extent to which the application of it can ever reach,—on the other hand, of the facility and consistency, with which, for the sake of union and concord, defalcation after defalcation might,—provisionally at any rate, and for the sake of experience—quiet and gradual experience,—be applied to it.

You can create collections of files, applications and controls — equivalent to IE4 toolbars or Windows program groups — called deskbands, which you can display on the taskbar. Clicking on an icon in a deskband launches that application […]

At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria.