A quartet of interesting quotes

1.A democracy ceases to be a democracy if its citizens do not participate in its governance.-Walter Cronkite
2.The crow wished that everything was black;the owl,that everything was white.-William Blake
3.Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.-Charles Simic
4.The craftiest trickery is too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.-Johann Kaspar Lavater