"It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself".

Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments, in The Federalist Papers, a collection of essays written in favour of the new Constitution as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

« I did what I thought was right. » Jon Snow

« There are no men like me. Only me. » - Jaime Lannister

« No one can protect me. No one can protect anyone. It's true, I am a slow learner, but I learn. Winterfell is Our Home, we have to fight for it.  » - Sansa Stark 

« Leave one wolf alive and the sheep will never be safe. » - Arya Stark

« A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. » - Stannis Baratheon

Take my Heart when You go _ Take Mine in It's Place.

Ti proteggerò dalle paure delle ipocondrie, dai turbamenti che da oggi incontrerai per la tua via, dalle ingiustizie e dagli inganni del tuo tempo, dai fallimenti che per tua natura normalmente attirerai. Ti salverò da ogni malinconia, perché sei un essere speciale. Ed io avrò cura di te.

“Non mi sono piaciute per niente quelle accuse, no, no e no“ grugniva la scrofa, ancheggiando per il vialetto. La coniglietta e l’asina le consigliarono più giudizio, perché quanto successo all’ape regina non era piacevole. “Dai, suvvia, non esagerare… secondo me i rospetti son stati fuori luogo“ si impuntò in particolar modo la coniglietta, ma la scrofa, beh, ormai l’avrete capito anche voi, non gliene poteva fregare di meno. “Le è stato rubato un alveare, ma di cosa stiamo parlando!“ 

" Sono io la tempesta, mio lord. La prima tempesta e l'ultima "

Volevo essere il re del mare, ma all'anagrafe sbagliarono una lettera

“Non mi sono piaciute per niente quelle accuse, no, no e no“ grugniva la scrofa, ancheggiando per il vialetto. La coniglietta e l’asina le consigliarono più giudizio, perché quanto successo all’ape regina non era piacevole. “Dai, suvvia, non esagerare… secondo me i rospetti son stati fuori luogo“ si impuntò in particolar modo la coniglietta, ma la scrofa, beh, ormai l’avrete capito anche voi, non gliene poteva fregare di meno. “Le è stato rubato un alveare, ma di cosa stiamo parlando!“ 

"Pensavo che il mio canto fosse solo all'inizio quel giorno, invece era quasi alla fine"

- Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both. -

- If I look back I am lost. -

- There are ghosts everywhere. We carry them with us wherever we go. -

« I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away. »

"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”

She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

“I pass the test”, she said. “I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.”

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"A ruler needs a good head and a true heart," she famously told the king. "A cock is not essential. If your Grace truly believes that women lack the wit to rule, plainly you have no further need of me." And thus Queen Alysanne departed King's Landing and flew to Dragonstone on her dragon Silverwing. [...] The queen died of a wasting illness in 100 AC, at the age of four-and-sixty, still insisting that her granddaughter Rhaenys and her children had been unfairly cheated of their rights. "The boy in the belly," the unborn child who had been the subject of so much debate, proved to be a girl when born in 93 AC. Her mother named her Laena. The next year, Rhaenys gave her a brother Laenor.