“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
“Democracy is our most important possession. If we throw it away when the going gets tough, we might never get it back.”
Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 24, “BDO” (p. 182)
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