Ford Roosevelt

“I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? —Carl Sandburg (1916)”
― Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

“There is an added technique for weakening a nation at its very roots, for disrupting the entire pattern of life of a people,” he went on. “It is important that we understand it. The method is simple. It is, first, a dissemination of discord. A group—not too large, a group that may be sectional or racial or political—is encouraged to exploit its prejudices through false slogans and emotional appeals. The aim of those who deliberately egg on these groups is to create confusion of counsel, public indecision, political paralysis and, eventually, a state of panic. Sound national policies come to be viewed with a new and unreasoning skepticism, not through the wholesome political debates of honest and free men, but through the clever schemes of foreign agents.”
― H.W. Brands, America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

“The issues that preoccupy bicycle advocates in the West—bike commuting as a planning priority and “lifestyle choice”—have little connection to the reality of the hundreds of millions for whom cycling is simply a necessity, the only viable and affordable means of travel.”
― Jody Rosen, Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle