David

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
― H. L. Mencken

“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
― Will Rogers

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“Nations do not plunge at once into ruin - governments do not change suddenly - the causes which bring about the final blow, are scarcely perceptible in the beginning; but they increase in numbers, and in power; they press harder and harder upon the energies and virtue of a people; and the last steps only are alarmingly hurried and irregular. A republic without industry, economy, and integrity, is Samson shorn of his locks. A luxurious and idle republic! Look at the phrase! - The words were never made to be married together; every body sees it would be death to one of them.”
― Lydia Maria Francis Child, American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who are Not Ashamed of Economy