Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination

If you're going to put it on a scale of one to ten, it's probably some place between a nine and one-half and above.

The power rests with the multitude, but let them beware how the exercise of it turns against their own rights! It is not the idol but the worshippers that are to be dreaded, and who, by degrading one of their fellows, render themselves liable to be branded with the same indignities.

Give nine, save ten

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)

Grief makes one hour ten